US 11,924,172 B1
System and method for instantiation of stateless extranets
Stefan Olofsson, Dubai (AE); Neale Ranns, Hure (FR); Mandeep Rohilla, London (GB); IJsbrand Wijnands, Leuven (BE); and Cameron Ferdinands, Queensland (AU)
Assigned to GRAPHIANT, INC., Fremont, CA (US)
Filed by GRAPHIANT, INC., Fremont, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/512,589.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 61/256 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/029 (2013.01) [H04L 61/256 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/164 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
18. A method in a consumer customer premises equipment (CPE) for secure network communication, the method comprising:
transmitting a consumer NHOP, to a provider CPE from the consumer CPE, in a control plane, the consumer NHOP being associated with at least one attribute of an NHOP, the at least one attribute of the NHOP being associated with an encryption key, available with the consumer CPE, to establish a secure communication tunnel in a data plane, from the consumer CPE to the provider CPE;
receiving a service definition as a control plane information over the control plane, from the provider CPE to the consumer CPE, the service definition being associated with a service, available with the provider CPE;
creating a service anchor point based on at least one identifier of the service definition;
transmitting a network address translation (NAT) IP request in response to creation of the service anchor point, to the provider CPE; and
receiving a network address translation (NAT) IP, in response to the NAT IP request, using the at least one identifier of the service definition, from the provider CPE, wherein the NAT IP being associated with the service anchor point, of the consumer CPE, wherein a stateless service is instantiated on the consumer CPE using the NAT IP.