Patent ID: 11943202
Assignee: UAB 360 IT
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method in a virtual private network (VPN), the method comprising:
receiving, at a VPN server from a user device during an established VPN connection between the VPN server and the user device, a data request for the VPN server to retrieve data of interest from a host device;
utilizing, by the VPN server during the established VPN connection, a first exit internet protocol (IP) address to transmit a query to the host device for retrieving the data of interest;
determining, by the VPN server based at least in part on transmitting the query, that the first exit IP address is blocked by the host device; and
transmitting, by the VPN server during the established VPN connection and based at least in part on determining that the first exit IP address is blocked, the data request to a secondary server to enable retransmission of the query to the host device by utilizing a second exit IP address, different from the first exit IP address.