Patent · US Active

Methods and systems for obtaining URL filtering information

US8316429B2 · kind B2 · utility

19Cited by

11References

17Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

Darrell Long · Austin, US
Lee Thomas Dolsen · Los Gatos, US
Doug Moen · Waterloo, CA

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 31, 2006
Grant date	Nov 20, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 8, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/166
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A host computer system is categorized according to uniform resource locator (URL) information extracted from a digital certificate purportedly associated with said host. Thereafter, a secure communication session (e.g., an SSL session) with said host may be granted or denied according to results of the categorizing. If granted, messages associated with the secure session may be tunneled through a proxy without decryption, or, in some cases, even though the secure communication session was authorized messages may be decrypted at the proxy.

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