US 12,452,214 B2
Network device protection
Kimmo Kasslin, Espoo (FI)
Assigned to Cujo LLC, Covina, CA (US)
Filed by Cujo LLC, Walnut, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/962,790.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/282,933, filed on Nov. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164119 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0272 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0281 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01); H04L 63/306 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
intercepting present network data related to a present data connection of a user apparatus;
analyzing the present network data; and
in response to determining that the user apparatus utilizes a privacy feature in the present data connection implemented by a first internet relay and a second internet relay, blocking the present data connection, wherein the privacy feature hides an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the user apparatus by routing the present data connection through the first internet relay and the second internet relay, such that the IP address of the user apparatus is visible to the first internet relay and a domain name record related to the present data connection is not visible to the first internet relay and the IP address of the user apparatus is not visible to the second internet relay and the domain name record related to the present data connection is visible to the second internet relay; and
subsequent to blocking the present data connection, instructing the user apparatus to not use the privacy feature for a future data connection.