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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
May. 12, 2023
Applicant:
The Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 63/0435 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of providing user data privacy for smart devices in a user's home uses a network of smart home routers to route encrypted data packets from the smart devices instead of sending them directly to a cloud-based service. An onion routing network for protecting the privacy of smart devices uses a plurality of smart home routers and an allowlist of domains accessed by smart devices to decide which data packets are routed through the network.