US 11,886,602 B2
Secure link sharing
Rohit Pradeep Shetty, Bangalore (IN); Sharun Varghese Samuel, Bangalore (IN); Erich Peter Stuntebeck, Atlanta, GA (US); Ramani Panchapakesan, Bangalore (IN); and Craig Farley Newell, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,708.
Application 17/712,708 is a continuation of application No. 16/689,094, filed on Nov. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,314,878.
Prior Publication US 2022/0229920 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 21/62 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for sharing content between a sending device and a recipient device comprising:
a computing device comprising a processor and a memory, the computing device executing a browser, wherein the browser is configured to at least:
receive a request to share a uniform resource locator (URL);
determine that the request requires a recipient browser to open the URL in a private browsing mode; and
generate a shared URL for transmission to the recipient browser, the shared URL including an indication to open the URL in the private browsing mode in the recipient browser, wherein the shared URL comprises a link to a URL restriction validator that confirms that the recipient browser is accessing the shared URL in a private browsing mode before redirecting the recipient browser to the URL.