Patent ID: 9177157
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for improving the security of transferring a message that includes a succession of message elements from a sender location to a recipient location over multiple paths in the Internet using a plurality of intermediate servers, wherein the sender location, the recipient location and the servers are each associated with an IP (Internet Protocol) address for being addressable in the Internet, the method comprising the steps of: (a) partitioning the message into a plurality of message slices, each message slice contains at least one of the message elements; (b) assigning an intermediate server, selected from the plurality of intermediate servers, to one or more message slices; (c) sending the one or more message slices together with the IP address of the recipient location to the intermediate server; (d) receiving and identifying, by the intermediate server, the one or more message slices and the IP address of the recipient location; (e) partitioning, by the intermediate server, one of the received message slices into a plurality of sub-slices, each sub-slice containing one or more of said message elements; and (f) sending, by the intermediate server, the sub-slices with the IP address of the recipient location to another intermediate server or to the recipient location.