Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Internet-based proxy service to limit internet visitor connection speed
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Application No.: US16848641Application Date: 2020-04-14
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Publication No.: US10922377B2Publication Date: 2021-02-16
- Inventor: Lee Hahn Holloway , Matthew Browning Prince , Ian Gerald Pye
- Applicant: Cloudflare, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Cloudflare, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cloudflare, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; G06F16/958 ; G06F16/95 ; G06F21/55 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; G06Q30/02 ; G06Q10/10 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L29/14 ; G06F40/14 ; G06F21/00 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L12/911

Abstract:
A proxy server for limiting Internet connection speed of visitors that pose a threat. The proxy server receives from a client device a request to perform an action on an identified resource that is hosted at an origin server for a domain. The proxy server receives the request as a result of a DNS request for the domain resolving to the proxy server. The origin server is one of multiple origin servers that belong to different domains that resolve to the proxy server and are owned by different entities. The proxy server analyzes the request to determine whether a visitor belonging to the request poses a threat. If the proxy server determines that the visitor poses a threat, the proxy server reduces the speed at which the proxy server processes the request while keeping a connection to the client device open.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200242177A1 INTERNET-BASED PROXY SERVICE TO LIMIT INTERNET VISITOR CONNECTION SPEED Public/Granted day:2020-07-30
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