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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Ofir Ezrielev, Be'er Sheba, IL;
Yehiel Zohar, Sderot, IL;
Yevgeni Gehtman, Modi'in, IL;
Tomer Shachar, Beer-Sheva, IL;
Maxim Balin, Gan-Yavne, IL;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
One example method includes intercepting a call issued by an application, at a first tier of an analytical structure, determining if the call is a networking call, when the call is determined to be a networking call, determining, at a second tier of the analytical structure, whether the networking call is requesting data, when the networking call is determined to be requesting data, determining at a third tier of the analytical structure, a classification of the data that is being requested, when the classification indicates that the data is not classified as public, or has not classified, determining, at a fourth tier of the analytical structure whether a destination IP address for the requested data is an internal IP address, and when the destination IP address is determined to be an external IP address, terminating the call.