Patent ID: 9407603
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: generating an outbound message with an application provided by a computing environment having one or more computing devices, wherein the outbound message includes at least a trustworthiness indicator and marking information based on inbound processing at an application-level firewall for the one or more portions of the outbound message, wherein the outbound message is to be transmitted to a remote electronic device by at least one of the one or more computing devices; encoding the outbound message with an outbound traffic engine having the application-level firewall executing on one or more computing devices within the computing environment, the encoding based on the trustworthiness indicator and the encoding to be performed before passing the outbound message, wherein the application-level firewall is configurable to inspect network traffic specific to an application based on logic of the application; analyzing the outbound message based on encoded user data and context information with the application-level firewall to determine when the outbound message is to be considered safe or unsafe; and performing an action on traffic to the application based on the encoded user data and the context information with one of the application-level firewall and the application by forwarding without modification when the outbound message is to be considered safe and to redirect the traffic to a designated safe URL when the outbound message is to be considered unsafe.