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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
May. 25, 2023
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Jason Livingood, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for discovery and assignment of privacy-protecting proxies/relays in a network. As an example, a gateway device located at a premises may send a request for data indicating one or more privacy-protecting proxies (PPPs) available to the gateway device, to a network device located external to the premises. The gateway device may select a PPP from the one or more PPPs available to the gateway device based on one or more predetermined criteria useful for selecting a PPP. The selected PPP may be assigned to a user device located at the premises by the gateway device. The assignment may be based on the selected PPP being trusted. Data associated with the user device may be routed via the assigned PPP. If the selected PPP is untrusted, data associated with the user device may be routed without using the selected and assigned PPP.