US Patent No: 8,090,827

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

Secure access to remote resources over a network

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Abstract

A client computer hosts a virtual private network tool to establish a virtual private network connection with a remote network. Upon startup, the virtual private network tool collects critical network information for the client computer, and sends this critical network information to an address assignment server in the remote network. The address assignment server compares the critical network information with a pool of available addresses in the remote network, and assigns addresses for use by the client computer that do not conflict with the addresses for local resources. The address assignment server also provides routing information for resources in the remote network to the virtual private network tool. The virtual private network tool will postpone loading this routing information into the routing tables of the client computer until the client computer requests access to a specific resource in the remote network. When the client computer requests access to a specific resource in the remote network, the virtual private network tool will only provide the routing table with the routing information for that specific remote resource.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
AVENTAIL LLCSEATTLE, WA15

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Erickson, Rodger Del Lawrence, KS 6 36
Hoover, Paul Lawrence Seattle, WA 6 36
Sauvé, Bryan - 4 20

Cited Art

Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (5)
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ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE CORPORATION (3)
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MICROSOFT CORPORATION (3)
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AT&T CORP. (1)
7,131,141 Method and apparatus for securely connecting a plurality of trust-group networks, a protected resource network and an untrusted network 30 2001
 
AVENTAIL LLC (1)
7,698,388 Secure access to remote resources over a network 13 2007
 
BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION (1)
2004/0003,084 Network resource management system 21 2002
 
CLOUDSHIELD TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (1)
7,624,142 System and method for processing packets according to user specified rules governed by a syntax 7 2005
 
CORENTE, INC. (1)
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EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (1)
7,092,987 Remote computer capabilities querying and certification 28 2001
 
ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION (1)
2004/0249,919 System and method for remote systems management and reporting 12 2003
 
FUJITSU SERVICES LIMITED (1)
7,000,121 Computer systems, in particular virtual private networks 17 2001
 
HITACHI, LTD. (1)
7,222,172 Storage system having virtualized resource 42 2003
 
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NOKIA CORPORATION (1)
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Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cites

Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
AVENTAIL LLC (2)
8,255,973 Provisioning remote computers for accessing resources 0 2004
8,301,769 Classifying an operating environment of a remote computer 0 2010

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