	US 12,238,825 B2
	Method for providing an elastic content filtering security service in a mesh network
Zhuangzhi Duo, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed by SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/378,583.
Application 18/378,583 is a continuation of application No. 17/899,959, filed on Aug. 31, 2022, granted, now 11,800,598, issued on Oct. 24, 2023.
Application 17/899,959 is a continuation of application No. 17/111,388, filed on Dec. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,438,963, issued on Sep. 6, 2022.
Application 17/111,388 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/397,951, filed on Apr. 29, 2019, granted, now 11,310,665, issued on Apr. 19, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/942,814, filed on Dec. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0049358 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 40/12 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01)

CPC H04W 84/18 (2013.01) [H04W 40/12 (2013.01); H04W 40/246 (2013.01)]

21 Claims

1. A method for distributing rating information, the method comprising:

storing in memory of a mesh portal device:

routing information that identifies one or more communication routes within a wireless mesh network, each of the communication routes including a set of one or more wireless mesh nodes, and

reputation information that correlates a reputation with a first access request for a website;

transferring the first access request along a first one of the communication routes that includes a first set of one or more wireless mesh nodes, wherein the wireless mesh nodes of the first route store the reputation information in cache memory;

identifying that an amount of communication traffic along the first route has dropped below a threshold level;

determining that the reputation correlated with the first access request is not stored at one or more wireless mesh nodes along a second route; and

transmitting the reputation information to the wireless mesh nodes along the second route when the amount of communication traffic is identified as having dropped below the threshold.