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Secure, standards-based communications across a wide-area network

  • US 20050223111A1
  • Filed: 11/04/2004
  • Published: 10/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of facilitating secure communications between an enterprise network and a user communicating over a wide-area network accessible to the enterprise network, the method comprising:

  • generating a set of encapsulated packets, generating the set of encapsulated packets further including encapsulating, within a first protocol, data packets originating with the user, wherein the user-originated data packets are encoded in a second protocol, and the second protocol is below the first protocol in a hierarchy of protocols;

    transmitting the encapsulated packets to the enterprise network over the wide-area network;

    receiving the encapsulated packets at the enterprise network;

    un-encapsulating the encapsulated packets to retrieve the user-originated data packets encoded in the second protocol;

    forwarding the user-originated data packets across the enterprise network via the second protocol.

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