Patent ID: 8458782
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a first virtual proxy implemented in a non-transitory machine accessible medium to process on at least one machine within a first local area network (LAN) accessible via a plurality of virtual proxies including the first virtual proxy; and an authentication agent to process within the first LAN and to communicate with a plurality of individual proxy modules within the first LAN, wherein the first virtual proxy is selected from the plurality of virtual proxies to represent each of the plurality of individual proxy modules as a single point of trust across a wide area network (WAN) to authentication agents outside the first LAN, wherein the first virtual proxy is to replace a local proxy authentication identification used for a local session message received from any one of the plurality of individual proxy modules with a unique identification assigned to the first virtual proxy, the unique identification to be transmitted to a second LAN outside the first LAN across the WAN and the unique identification to allow the first virtual proxy to be identified across the WAN, and wherein the authentication agent is to receive a modified session message originated within the second LAN across the WAN and to transmit content associated with the modified session message to the plurality of individual proxy modules.