Patent ID: 11876786
Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a computing device, a protocol identifier of a protocol associated with a header of a packet;
determining, based on a permutation of the protocol identifier, a faux protocol identifier;
obfuscating, based on the faux protocol identifier, the protocol identifier;
inserting, into the packet, one or more additional headers, wherein each of the one or more additional headers comprises an additional faux protocol identifier; and
providing, to a user device, the packet, wherein the user device is configured to determine information associated with the faux protocol identifier based on the one or more additional headers, and wherein the user device is configured to determine the protocol identifier based on the information associated with the faux protocol identifier.