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AssigneeApplied Materials, Inc.
InventorsRalph A. Gilman, Mary C. Duffy
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In a semiconductor fabrication facility in which a plurality of fab-owned and operated client systems located within the facility are connected to a fab-owned Intranet using a first physical connection type, a method of allowing an employee associated with a supplier enterprise to access a supplier-owned Intranet owned by the supplier enterprise from a supplier-controlled computing device located within the fabrication facility, a method for allowing secure end-to-end communication between the supplier-controlled computing device and the supplier-owned Intranet. In one embodiment the method includes connecting the computing device to the fab-owned Intranet through a node using a second physical connection type that is different from the first physical connection type; establishing an isolation pipe through the fab-owned Intranet between the node and a hub/firewall using virtual private network technology; generating a request to logon to the supplier-owned Intranet from the computing device; formatting the request in a secure Internet protocol such that the request is broken up into multiple packets, with each packet including at least a header portion and an encrypted data portion; and transmitting the formatted request through the isolation pipe over the fab-owned Intranet to the hub/firewall and then over the public Internet to the supplier-owned Intranet with end-to-end encryption.
A method of allowing an employee associated with a first enterprise to access a first Intranet owned by the first enterprise from a computing device located within a semiconductor fabrication facility in which a plurality of client systems located within said facility are connected to a second Intranet using a first physical connection type, said fabrication facility, plurality of client systems and second Intranet all being owned by a second enterprise, said method comprising:
The method of claim 5 wherein both the network transmission header and already encrypted data portions of each packet associated with said formatted request is encrypted at said node using a VPN-level encryption protocol prior to being transmitted through said isolation pipe and then decrypted at said hub/firewall such that the header is unencrypted and the data portion is encrypted using only the SSL protocol prior to being transmitted over the public Internet.
In a customer network comprising a plurality of customer client systems, at least one customer server system and a customer firewall where said plurality of customer client systems are communicatively coupled to said server system using a first physical connection type, said server system is communicatively coupled to said firewall and said customer firewall is communicatively coupled to a public network, a method of allowing end-to-end secure communication from a supplier client system located behind said firewall to a supplier server system accessible over said public network, said method comprising:
A method for allowing end-to-end secure communication over a public network from a client system located behind a firewall of a first private network to a server system associated with a second private network, said method comprising:
A networked system comprising:
A networked system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.