US 9,871,870 B1Granted

Pseudonymous communication session generation and management systems and methods

AssigneeFlowroute Inc.

InventorsSean Hsieh, Daniel Nordale, Dan Root, Bayan Towfiq, MohammedAli Merchant, William King, Casey MacPhee

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Abstract

Certain aspects of the present methods and systems may focus on computer implemented methods and systems for managing pseudonymous communication sessions. Such a system may include a data store, including data records corresponding to a plurality of available data communication addresses (“DCAs”), and including a first DCA; a CPU; and memory. The memory may include instructions for causing the CPU to execute a method including: obtaining a pseudonymous communication session (“PCS”) initiation request including a second DCA; removing the first data communication address from said plurality of available data communication addresses and associating the first DCA the second DCA in the data store; providing the first DCA in response to said pseudonymous communication session initiation request; and, in the event of obtaining a data communication from a source DCA directed to the first DCA, creating a PCS between the source DCA and the second DCA.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A pseudonymous communication session (PCS) management system, the system comprising:

a data store, said data store including data records corresponding to a plurality of data communication addresses in an available state and including a first data communication address;
a computer processing unit in data communication with said data store;
and
memory in data communication with said computer processing unit and including instructions for causing said processing unit to execute a method, the method including:
(a) obtaining a PCS set up request, said PCS set up request being associated with a PCS data structure and including a second data communication address;
(b) selecting said first data communication address;
(c) pairing said first data communication address to said second data communication address in said PCS data structure associated with said PCS set up request;
(d) indicating said first data communication address is now in an active state;
and
(e) providing said first data communication address in a response to said PCS set up request, wherein the method further includes obtaining an incoming communication signal directed to said first data communication address, said incoming communication signal originating from a third data communication address and providing an outgoing communication signal directed to said second data communication address and establishing a pseudonymous communication session between said second data communication address and said third data communication address and wherein establishing a pseudonymous communication session between said third data communication address and said second data communication address includes establishing an ongoing communication session between said third data communication address and said first data communication address and establishing an ongoing communication session between said first data communication address and said second data communication address.

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A pseudonymous communication session (PCS) management system, the system comprising:

a data store, said data store including data records corresponding to a plurality of data communication addresses in an available state and including a first data communication address;
a computer processing unit in data communication with said data store;
and
memory in data communication with said computer processing unit and including instructions for causing said processing unit to execute a method, the method including:
(a) obtaining a PCS set up request, said PCS set up request being associated with a PCS data structure and including a second data communication address;
(b) selecting said first data communication address;
(c) pairing said first data communication address to said second data communication address in said PCS data structure associated with said PCS set up request;
(d) indicating said first data communication address is now in an active state;
and
(e) providing said first data communication address in a response to said PCS set up request, wherein a primary service period duration value and a fifth data communication address are associated with said PCS data structure and the method further includes:
(f) determining an elapsed duration between a current time and a time of pairing said first and second data communication addresses exceeds said primary service period duration value;
and
(g) pairing said first data communication address to said fifth data communication address in said PCS data structure.

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A pseudonymous communication session (PCS) management system, the system comprising:

a data store, said data store including data records corresponding to a plurality of data communication addresses in an available state and including a first data communication address;
a computer processing unit in data communication with said data store;
and
memory in data communication with said computer processing unit and including instructions for causing said processing unit to execute a method, the method including:
(a) obtaining a PCS set up request, said PCS set up request being associated with a PCS data structure and including a second data communication address;
(b) selecting said first data communication address;
(c) pairing said first data communication address to said second data communication address in said PCS data structure associated with said PCS set up request;
(d) indicating said first data communication address is now in an active state;
and
(e) providing said first data communication address in a response to said PCS set up request, wherein an active state period duration value is associated with said PCS data structure and the method further includes:
(f) determining an elapsed duration between a current time and a time of step (c) occurring exceeds said active state period duration value;
and
(g) indicating said first data communication address is now in an inactive state.

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A pseudonymous communication session (PCS) management system, the system comprising:

a data store, said data store including data records corresponding to a plurality of data communication addresses in an available state and including a first data communication address;
a computer processing unit in data communication with said data store;
and
memory in data communication with said computer processing unit and including instructions for causing said processing unit to execute a method, the method including:
(a) obtaining a PCS set up request, said PCS set up request being associated with a PCS data structure and including a second data communication address;
(b) selecting said first data communication address;
(c) pairing said first data communication address to said second data communication address in said PCS data structure associated with said PCS set up request;
(d) indicating said first data communication address is now in an active state;
and
(e) providing said first data communication address in a response to said PCS set up request, wherein:
said plurality of data communication addresses in an available state includes a third data communication address;
said PCS set up request includes a fourth data communication address;
step (b) further includes selecting said third data communication address;
step (c) further includes pairing said third data communication address to said fourth data communication address in said PCS data structure;
step (d) further includes indicating said third data communication address is now in an active state;
and
step (e) further includes providing said second data communication address, an indication said second data communication address is paired with said first data communication address, and an indication said fourth data communication address is paired with said third data communication address in response to said pseudonymous communication session initiation request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/432,761Filed 14 Feb 2017
Granted: 16 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 67/146
Session management: markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
H04L 61/4535
Network directories; Name-to-address mapping: using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous…
H04L 63/0407
For providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks: wherein the identity of one or more…
H04L 63/0421
Wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden: anonymous communication, i.e. the party's identifiers are hidden from the…