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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
Oversec, Uab, Vilnius, LT;
Adomas Nosalis, Vilnius, LT;
Darjus Ilcevic, Vilnius, LT;
Oversec, UAB, Vilnius, LT;
Abstract
A method and system to communicate VPN server information to a client application without providing a full list of VPN server IP addresses. Instead, the method includes VPN server selection criteria that can be requested by client applications, such as 'Free or Premium servers', “Geolocation”, “Load”, “Streaming and protocol capabilities”, etc. A tagged data payload (e.g., JSON) can be used to provide these criteria, upon a request by a client application. Various groupings of VPN servers can be represented by the above criteria. The method provides a means for communicating the available VPN servers to a client application without sending and revealing the full list of VPN servers stored in the VPN infrastructure. This makes the VPN server selection efficient, reduces network load and VPN tunnel establishing time, also, ensures confidentiality of VPN server lists that is important for any of VPN service providers and users.