Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for rotating a gateway address
- Patent Title (中): 旋转网关地址的系统和方法
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Application No.: US13399432Application Date: 2012-02-17
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Publication No.: US08812689B2Publication Date: 2014-08-19
- Inventor: William W. Higdon , Jonathan Dirk Caudill
- Applicant: William W. Higdon , Jonathan Dirk Caudill
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Alston & Bird LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16

Abstract:
A client device, a gateway and a corresponding method are provided in order to increase the security of a network to which access is provided via a gateway. The address of the gateway may rotate, e.g., change, such that hackers or other individuals or devices that should not have access to the network will experience much greater difficulty in securing the address of the gateway and accessing the network, at least for any extended period of time. By ensuring that both the client device and the gateway are synchronized in regard to the rotation of the address of the gateway, however, the client device may still properly address the gateway and therefore access the network, even as the address of the gateway rotates. Different operating systems may also be associated with some of the different addresses of the gateway in order to increase the security of the network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130219071A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROTATING A GATEWAY ADDRESS Public/Granted day:2013-08-22
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