Patent ID: 11968254
Assignee: SNOWSTORM INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for network censorship circumvention, the method implemented by a censored peer device and comprising:
sending to a rendezvous peer device censored peer location information;
establishing a connection with a volunteer peer device using volunteer peer location information received from the rendezvous peer device and corresponding to the volunteer peer device, wherein the volunteer peer device is matched to the censored peer device by the rendezvous peer device;
sending to the volunteer peer device first network traffic in accordance with a first network protocol using a second network protocol associated with the established connection, wherein the first network traffic is directed to a network host restricted with respect to the censored peer device and the second network protocol is a peer-to-peer network protocol; and
extracting second network traffic responsive to the first network traffic from one or more first network messages to obtain access to the restricted network host via the volunteer peer device, wherein the one or more first network messages are in accordance with the second network protocol and received via the established connection.