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Patent No.:

US 6636898 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2003

Filed:

Jan. 29, 1999

System and method for central management of connections in a virtual private network

Applicant:
Inventors:

David S. Ludovici, Owego, NY (US);

Mark J. Melville, Endwell, NY (US);

Richard A. Mullock, Endwell, NY (US);

Frank V. Paxhia, Binghamton, NY (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorney:

Shelley M. Beckstrand

Primary Examiner:

Gail Hayes

Assistant Examiner:

Ronald Baum

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract

A single point of control is provided for all IPSec tunnels and also for VPN connections at a node within a virtual private network. The control of the connections include the ability to start and stop manual and dynamic VPN connections, to delete connections that might have had errors associated with them, to query VPN connection status information on these connections, to manage such things as connection lifetimes, and the refresh of keying material, that is the re-negotiation of dynamic Security Associations (SAs), and to create VPN connections when this system is acting in a responder role, that is the opposite endpoint of an initiated connection.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Ludovici, David. (2003). System and method for central management of connections in a virtual private network (U.S. Patent No. 6636898). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6636898

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