Patent ID: 7376235

Claim:
A method for a sender to enhance security when transmitting “real” data from the sender to a receiver over a network connection, wherein the sender and the receiver agree upon an encoding scheme for encrypting the real data, the method comprising: encrypting the real data using the agreed-upon encoding scheme to produce encrypted real data; assembling the encrypted real data into a plurality of real-data packets, wherein the encrypted real data in each of the plurality of real-data packets has been encrypted using the same encoding scheme; encrypting pseudo data using a second encoding scheme to produce encrypted pseudo data, the second encoding scheme differing from the agreed-upon encoding scheme; assembling the encrypted pseudo data into a pseudo-data packet such that the pseudo-data packet comprises the encrypted pseudo data; and combining the plurality of real-data packets and the pseudo-data packet into one data stream and transmitting the data stream to the receiver.