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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2021
Applicant:
Hughes Network Systems, Llc, Germantown, MD (US);
Inventor:
Douglas Merrill Dillon, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for estimating the kind of traffic a VPN is carrying and determining which WAN connection to use for VPN network traffic to reduce usage costs while maintaining responsiveness in a VPN router or gateway. A VPN classifier examines VPN packets and estimates the type of traffic they are carrying and selects a policy for upstream or downstream traffic to determine which tunnel or tunnels to send network traffic. Further, policies may be applied to VPN packets as a function of usage knob.