US 2019/0166040 A1Published application

Automatic scaling of vpn connections

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsAbhishek K. TIWARI, Ashok NANDOORI, Arpan Kumar ASTHANA, Mohit GARG

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Abstract

The disclosed technology may include determining that a change is to be made in virtual private network (VPN) connectivity between a first site and a second site while a first VPN connection is operational between a first device at the first site and a first gateway at the second site. VPN information is provided to a second gateway at the second site, the VPN information including information that is associated with a second VPN connection to be established between the first device and the second gateway. It is detected that network traffic is flowing over the second VPN connection between the first device and the second gateway. In response to detecting that the network traffic is flowing between the first device and the second gateway, a notification is sent to the first gateway for the first gateway to deprovision the first VPN connection.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a device including at least one memory adapted to store run-time data for the device, and at least one processor that is adapted to execute processor-executable code that, in response to execution, enables the device to perform actions, including:
determining that a change is to be made in virtual private network (VPN) connectivity between a first site and a second site while a first VPN connection is operational between a first device at the first site and a first gateway at the second site;
providing a VPN connection configuration to a second gateway at the second site, the VPN connection configuration including information that is associated with a second VPN connection to be established between the first device and the second gateway, wherein at least a portion of a wide area network connection between the first gateway and the first device is different than at least a portion of the wide area network connection between the second gateway and the first device;
detecting, via monitoring the second VPN connection, that network traffic is flowing over the second VPN connection between the first device and the second gateway;
and
in response to detecting that the network traffic is flowing between the first device and the second gateway, sending a notification to the first gateway for the first gateway to deprovision the first VPN connection.

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A processor-readable storage medium, having stored thereon processor-executable code that, upon execution by at least one processor, enables actions, comprising:

responsive to a determination that a change is to be made in virtual private network (VPN) connectivity between a first site and a second site while a first VPN connection is operational between a first device at the first site and a first gateway at the second site, sending configuration information to a second gateway at the second site, the configuration information including information that is associated with a second VPN connection to be established between the first device and the second gateway;
detecting that network traffic is flowing over the second VPN connection between the first device and the second gateway;
and
in response to detecting that the network traffic is flowing between the first device and the second gateway, communicating a notification to the first gateway for the first gateway to deprovision the first VPN connection.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.