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US 2014/0007220 A1Published application
Use of telephony features and phones to enable and disable secure remote access
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorMartin Pepin
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Abstract
System and method to control a virtual private network (VPN) connection, including the steps of: establishing a VPN connection between a VPN client associated with a communication terminal of an end-user and a remote VPN gateway; configuring the VPN client to recognize a shortcode provided by the communication terminal; and controlling the VPN connection based upon the shortcode.
Claims20
A method to control a virtual private network (VPN) connection, comprising the steps of:
- establishing a VPN connection between a VPN client associated with a communication terminal of an end-user and a remote VPN gateway;
- configuring the VPN client to recognize a shortcode provided by the communication terminal;
- and
- controlling the VPN connection based upon the shortcode.
1 more element
A system to control a virtual private network (VPN) connection, comprising:
- a VPN client;
- a communication terminal associated with the VPN client, wherein the communication terminal is in a same domain as the VPN client;
- a processor coupled to a memory, wherein the processor is configured to establish a VPN connection between the VPN client and a VPN gateway, wherein the VPN gateway is in a domain that is different than the domain of the VPN client;
- and
- a module configured to control the VPN connection by use of signals from the communication terminal
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.