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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2012
Applicants:

Robert Dunham Short, Iii, Lexington, VA (US);

Victor Larson, Fairfax, VA (US);

Michael Williamson, South Riding, VA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Dunham Short, III, Lexington, VA (US);

Victor Larson, Fairfax, VA (US);

Michael Williamson, South Riding, VA (US);

Assignee:

VirnetX, Inc., Zephyr Cove, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/2053 (2013.01); H04L 61/2592 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 61/2046 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and related systems are presented that relate to automatically avoiding address conflicts when establishing a secure communications link over a public network between a local computer, associated with a local network, and a remote computer, located outside the local network. In order to avoid address conflict, addresses reserved for use by the local network and addresses reserved for use by the remote network are determined. At least one local address is selected from among available local addresses such that the selected local address is an address that does not conflict with the reserved addresses of the local network and the reserved addresses of the remote network. The selected local address is used in connection with establishment of the secure communications link between the local computer and the remote computer.


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