US 11,770,457 B2 · Methods and systems for implementing a regionally contiguous proxy service

Abstract

System and method for efficiently implementing scalable, highly efficient decentralized proxy services through proxy infrastructures situated in different geo-locations. In one aspect, the systems and methods enable users from any geographical location to send requests to the geographically closest proxy infrastructure. One exemplary method described allows proxy infrastructures to gather, classify, and store metadata of exit nodes in its internal database. In another aspect, systems and methods described herein enable proxy infrastructures to select metadata of exit nodes from its internal database and forward requests from a user device to respective proxy servers or proxy supernodes to which the selected exit nodes are connected.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method for storing a plurality of exit node metadata and identifying at least one suitable exit node metadata suitable to satisfy a user-defined preference, the method comprising:

fetching, by a proxy infrastructure, the plurality of exit node metadata from a central management unit;
classifying, by the proxy infrastructure, the plurality of exit node metadata according to multiple attributes;
storing, by the proxy infrastructure, the plurality of exit node metadata in a database;
checking, by the proxy infrastructure, a user request to identify the user-defined preference;
identifying, by the proxy infrastructure, at least one suitable exit node metadata satisfying the user-defined preference;
communicating, by the proxy infrastructure, the user request and the at least one suitable exit node metadata to a proxy supernode.

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Facts

Application

17/935,663Filed 27 Sep 2022 · continuation

Priority

19 Mar 2021

Published

US 2023/0019976 A119 Jan 2023

Granted

26 Sep 2023

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Classification14 codes

H04L 67/289
Architectures; Arrangements: intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same…
H04L 43/0852
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: delays
H04L 61/4511
Using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols: using domain name system [DNS]
H04L 67/01
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: protocols

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Application17/207,198Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Mar 2021

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Application17/804,213Parent of this continuation · filed 26 May 2022

US 11,381,667 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jul 2022

US 2023/0019976 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Jan 2023

US 11,489,937 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2022/0303357 A1Published application

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Methods and systems for implementing a regionally contiguous proxy service

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