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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
May. 06, 2015
Skyport Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Stephen Rodgers, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Norman Eatherton, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael John Beesley, Atherton, CA (US);
Stefan Alexander Dyckerhoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philippe Gilbert Lacroute, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Ronald Swierk, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neil Vincent Geraghty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Keith Eric Holleman, Campbell, CA (US);
Thomas John Giuli, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srivatsan Rajagopal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul Edward Fraley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vijay Krishnaji Tapaskar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Sergeevich Selifonov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Keith Anthony Low, San Mateo, CA (US);
Skyport Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for managing network access for applications. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide mock Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the applications, where the applications may use the mock IP address to communicate with other systems. Each mock IP address may be associated with one or more policies, where the policies dictate how packets that include the mock IP address is processed.