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US 12,192,178 B2Granted
Systems and methods for portable computing device protection
AssigneeFortinet, Inc.
InventorKushal Arvind Shah
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Abstract
Various approaches for providing intermediary threat detection. In some cases, the intermediary threat detection is performed by a communication control port that operatively couples with a portable computing device to protect the portable computing device from network based vulnerabilities and exploits.
Claims13
A method, the method comprising:
- configuring, by a computing device, a communication control device coupled with the computing device through a wired interface of the computing device and a first wired communication interface of the communication control device, wherein the communication control device further includes at least a first wireless communication circuit and a processor;
- disabling, by the computing device, at least a second wireless communication circuit of the computing device, wherein the second wireless communication circuit performs a comparable function to the first wireless communication circuit, wherein the comparable function comprises wireless communications via at least one wireless communication protocol;
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- establishing, by the computing device, a proxy network connection to route network traffic between an external network and the computing device via the first wireless communication circuit to enable secure communication between the computing device and the external network.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions, which when executed by one or more processing resources of a computing device, causes the one or more processing resources to perform a method comprising:
- configuring a communication control device coupled with the computing device through a wired interface of the computing device and a first wired communication interface of the communication control device, wherein the communication control device further includes at least a first wireless communication circuit;
- disabling at least a second wireless communication circuit of the computing device, wherein the second wireless communication circuit performs a comparable function to the first wireless communication circuit, wherein the comparable function comprises wireless communications via at least one wireless communication protocol;
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- establishing a proxy network connection to route network traffic between an external network and the computing device via the first wireless communication circuit to enable secure communication between the computing device and the external network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.