US 12,732,643 B2Granted

Streaming proxy service

AssigneeOxylabs, UAB

InventorGiedrius Stalioraitis

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Abstract

Embodiments disclose a system that allows for improved generation of web requests for scraping that, because of the nature of the requests and time and manner they are sent out, appear more organic, as in human generated, than conventional automated scraping systems. The system then manages how a client request to scrape a target website is made to the site, masking the request in a manner that makes it appear to the Web server as if the request is not generated by an automated system. In this way, by appearing more organic, Web servers may be less likely to block requests from the disclosed system or may take longer to block requests from the disclosed system. By avoiding Web servers blocking requests and extending the lifetime of IP proxies before they are blocked, embodiments can use a limited IP proxy address space more efficiently.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

(a) receiving, at a back-end proxy server, a proxy protocol request to a target streaming service, the proxy protocol request including an identifier that uniquely identifies a client of a virtual private network service provider, the client having requested streaming data;
(b) at the back-end proxy server, determining whether the identifier is entered in a table mapping respective identifiers to one of a plurality of internet protocol (IP) addresses;
when the identifier is not entered in the table:
(c) selecting, by the back-end proxy server, an IP address from the plurality of IP addresses by determining the target streaming service is configured to provide the requested streaming data in response to requests from a geographic region of the selected IP address;
(d) adding, by the back-end proxy server, an entry to the table mapping the identifier to the IP address in (c) such that subsequent requests from the client are mapped to the same IP address selected in (c);
and
(e) sending, by the back-end proxy server, a message to the target streaming service, wherein the message uses the IP address selected in (c) as the message's source address.

4 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations, comprising:

(a) receiving a proxy protocol request to a target streaming service, the proxy protocol request including an identifier that uniquely identifies a client of a virtual private network service provider, the client having requested streaming data;
(b) determining whether the identifier is entered in a table mapping respective identifiers to one of a plurality of internet protocol (IP) addresses;
when the identifier is not entered in the table:
(c) selecting an IP address from the plurality of IP addresses based on determining the target streaming service is configured to provide the requested streaming data in response to requests from a geographic region of the selected IP address;
(d) adding an entry to the table mapping the identifier to the IP address in (c) such that subsequent requests from the client are mapped to the same IP address selected in (c);
and
(e) sending a message to the target streaming service, wherein the message uses the IP address selected in (c) as the message's source address.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/807,554Filed 16 Aug 2024 · continuation
Priority: 14 Apr 2022
Published: US 2024/0406466 A15 Dec 2024
Granted: 8 Sep 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 21/222
Server components or server architectures: secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end
H04L 61/4511
Using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols: using domain name system [DNS]
H04L 63/0272
For separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls: virtual private networks
H04L 63/0281
For separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls: proxies

Family

Application17/659,218Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Apr 2022
US 2024/0406466 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Dec 2024
US 12,149,755 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2023/0336793 A1Published application
US 12,732,643 B2This patent

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