Patent ID: 11870865
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method for transmitting data using an encrypted transport (ET) proxy protocol, the method comprising:
receiving incoming UDP packets at a first ET proxy device, each of the incoming UDP packets including a UDP payload and first IP and UDP headers, the first IP and UDP headers including first source information and first destination information;
selecting the UDP packets to be proxied according to a set of predetermined rules;
for each selected UDP packet:
determining a first identifier from the first source information and the first destination information in the first IP and UDP headers of the selected UDP packet, the first identifier identifying a connection between a client device and the first ET proxy device;
identifying an entry in an ET proxy connection table of the first ET proxy device that includes the first identifier;
obtaining a connection identifier from the identified entry that identifies an ET proxy backbone connection between the first ET proxy device and a second ET proxy device;
creating an ET proxy packet that includes the UDP payload and an ET proxy header, the ET proxy header including the connection identifier; and
transmitting the ET proxy packet from the first ET proxy enabled device to the second ET proxy device via the ET proxy backbone connection.