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

Claim 16:
17. A volunteer peer device, comprising memory having instructions stored thereon and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to execute the stored instructions to:
send to a rendezvous peer device volunteer peer location information;
establish a connection with a censored peer device using censored peer location information received from the rendezvous peer device and corresponding to the censored peer device, wherein the censored peer device is matched to the volunteer peer device by the rendezvous peer device;
receive from the censored 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;
retrieve content from the network host in accordance with the first network traffic; and
return to the censored peer device the retrieved content via the established connection and one or more network messages in accordance with the second network protocol, wherein the retrieved content is included in the network messages in accordance with the first network protocol.