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US 2022/0286436 A1Published application
Systems and methods for portable computing device protection
AssigneeFortinet, Inc.
InventorKushal Arvind Shah
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Abstract
Various approaches for providing intermediary threat detection. In some cases, the intermediary threat detection is performed by a communication control port that operatively couples with a portable computing device to protect the portable computing device from network based vulnerabilities and exploits.
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A method, the method comprising:
- configuring, by a computing device, a communication control port coupled with the computing device through a wired interface, wherein the communication control port includes at least a first wireless communication circuit;
- disabling, by the computing device, at least a second wireless communication circuit of the computing device, wherein the second wireless communication circuit performs a comparable function to the first wireless communication circuit;
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- establishing, by the computing device, a proxy network connection to route network traffic between an external network and the computing device via the first wireless communication circuit to enable secure communication between the computing device and the external network.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions, which when executed by one or more processing resources of a computing device, causes the one or more processing resources to perform a method comprising:
- configuring a communication control port coupled with the computing device through a wired interface, wherein the communication control port includes at least a first wireless communication circuit;
- disabling at least a second wireless communication circuit of the computing device, wherein the second wireless communication circuit performs a comparable function to the first wireless communication circuit;
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- establishing a proxy network connection to route network traffic between an external network and the computing device via the first wireless communication circuit to enable secure communication between the computing device and the external network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.