Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Anonymization of traffic patterns over communication networks
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Application No.: US15484162Application Date: 2017-04-11
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Publication No.: US10057146B2Publication Date: 2018-08-21
- Inventor: Arup Acharya , Ashish Kundu
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent L Jeffrey Kelly; Douglas M. Crockatt
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F12/14 ; G06F12/16 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method of obfuscating communication traffic patterns may include detecting, at a first communications device, data communication sessions with a second communications device via the computer server using a network protocol. At the first device, a first traffic pattern is accessed based on the data communication sessions over a first predefined time period. At the first communications device, a second traffic pattern is accessed based on the data communication sessions over a second predefined time period that occurs after the first predefined time period. At the first communications device, based on a randomization process, a dummy data communication pattern is generated for transmission to the second communication devices, whereby the dummy data communication pattern is appended to the second traffic pattern for obfuscating a traffic pattern change between the first and the second traffic pattern at the computer server used to establish the communication sessions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170222898A1 ANONYMIZATION OF TRAFFIC PATTERNS OVER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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