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System for protecting identity in a network environment

  • US 8,375,434 B2
  • Filed: 12/31/2005
  • Issued: 02/12/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • at least one network device having at least one identifier, the network device being on a private side of a network and capable of communicating with a destination device on a public side of a network;

    a plurality of masking devices for facilitating communications from the network device to the destination device, and configured to protect the at least one identifier from detection by the destination device by masking the identifier from the public side of the network, the identifiers of the at least one network device being protected by one or masking devices, wherein the masking devices operate in a coordinated manner,where the masking device protects the identifier of the network device by replacing the identifier on the private side of the network with a masking identifier on the public side of the network, andwhere the masking device further comprises a network address translation exploder (“

    NATE”

    ).

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