Intelligent management of application connectivity
AssigneeAOL Inc.
InventorPhilip W. Flack
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Abstract
Network connectivity is selectively established by monitoring, on a client, communications activity incident to accessing a network, the communications activity including a request to access the network. An application associated with the communications activity is be identified. A communications configuration associated with the application is accessed, the communications configuration indicating how the application is configured to access the network. Network connectivity is selectively established based on the communications configuration, and the application may be enabled to access the network to support the communications activity.
Claims25
1-19. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method comprising the following operations performed by at least one processor:
- obtaining a trusted device profile associated with a user, the trusted device profile comprising a trusted Internet Protocol address associated with a device of the user;
- identifying an Internet Protocol address associated with a request to access a function of a web server, the request being received from the device of the user;
- determining whether the identified Internet Protocol address is associated with the trusted device profile;
- determining whether a number of day sessions associated with the identified Internet Protocol address exceeds a first threshold value, when the identified Internet Protocol address is not associated with the trusted device profile;
- and
- establishing the Internet Protocol address as a trusted Internet Protocol address, when the number of day sessions is determined to exceed the first threshold value.
An apparatus for establishing network connectivity, comprising:
- a storage device that stores a set of instructions;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the storage device, the at least one processor being operative with the set of instructions in order to:
- monitor communications activity of a client that is incident to accessing a network;
- access a communications profile associated with the communications activity of the client;
- determine, based on the communications profile, whether the communications activity is generated by an ambient background process;
- and
- establish network connectivity for the client based on the determination that the communications activity is not generated by the ambient background process.
A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable memory device that stores a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
- monitoring communications activity of a client that is incident to accessing a network;
- accessing a communications profile associated with the communications activity of the client;
- determining, based on the communications profile, whether the communications activity is generated by an ambient background process;
- and
- establishing network connectivity for the client based on the determination that the communications activity is not generated by the ambient background process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.