System For Protecting Identity in a Network Environment

• US 20080196098A1
• Filed: 12/31/2005
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ntrepid, LLC
• Original Assignee: Ntrepid Corporation
• Inventors: Cottrell, Lance M., Anderson, Gene, Brennet, Brian, Tentler, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 8,375,434 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0414 during transmission, i.e. party's identity is protected against eavesdropping, e.g. by using temporary identifiers, but is known to the other party or parties involved in the communication

Abstract

A system for protecting identify of network devices (102, 104, and 106) in a network environment. The system includes an apparatus having an interface to the network for completing connections to destination devices (152, 154, and 156) on the public side of the network. The apparatus includes a masking element (140) for associating at least one masking identifier with a communication from the network device and masking the identifier of the network device from the destination device.

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