Intelligent virtual private network (VPN) client configured to manage common VPN sessions with distributed VPN service
US10257167B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 21, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 9, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 24, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/205
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments presented herein disclose a VPN service which includes a cluster of VPN appliances that requires only an eventually consistent database to share VPN session data among cluster nodes. Doing so provides a VPN service that can scale both horizontally (i.e., the VPN service can support large numbers of VPN appliances) as well as geographically (i.e., nodes of the cluster do not need to be physically proximate to one another in order to satisfy latency requirements). Thus, the VPN service can provide regional endpoints to VPN clients that do not share common points of failure or administrative burdens.
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