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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 01, 2013
Mocana Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Scott Pontillo, Roseville, CA (US);
James Blaisdell, Novato, CA (US);
Shawn-Lin Dzeng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mocana Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An Internet-enabled device, such as a smartphone, tablet, PC, wearable sensor, or household appliance, executes an application (or 'app') has its own VPN connection with a VPN gateway device. The app does not use the device-level or system VPN to connect with the gateway. The app, which may be security wrapped, is made more secure by having its own VPN tunnel with the gateway, wherein the VPN tunnel is not used by other apps running on the device. The conventional (or device-level) VPN connection is not used by the app(s). The app has its own IP stack, an HTTP proxy layer, an IPsec module, and a virtual data link layer which it uses to build IP packets, encapsulate them, and transmit them to a transport module in the device operating system, for example, a UDP module.