Patents Assigned to CLOUDFARE, INC.
  • Patent number: 11949707
    Abstract: Isolating suspicious email links is described. An email security service receives an email that includes a link that refers to an external resource. A first suspicious link determination is performed to determine whether the link is suspicious. If the link is suspicious, the link is rewritten to refer to the email security and the email is delivered to the recipient. A request from a client device is received responsive to the link being opened. A second suspicious link determination is performed to determine whether the link is suspicious. If the link is suspicious, an interstitial page is transmitted to the client device that includes an option that, when selected, causes the first link to be opened in a remote browser isolation session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Syme, Michelle Chen, Jeremy Michael Eckman, Michael J. Flester, Shalabh Mohan, Timothy Obezuk
  • Patent number: 10855798
    Abstract: A proxy server receives from a client device a request for a network resource that is hosted at an origin server for a domain. The proxy server transmits the request to the origin server. Responsive to determining that the origin server is offline, the proxy server determines whether the requested resource is available in cache. If it is in cache, the proxy server retrieves the requested resource from the cache and transmits the requested resource to the client device. The proxy server also transmits an offline browsing cookie to the client device for the domain such that when a subsequent request is received from the client device for a resource of the domain that includes the offline browsing cookie, a cached version of the requested resource will be served instead of querying the origin server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Hahn Holloway, Matthew Browning Prince
  • Patent number: 10581904
    Abstract: Message(s) are received from each one of multiple proxy servers, which are anycasted to the same IP address, that indicate source IP addresses of packets that are received that are directed to that same IP address. These proxy servers receive the packets as result of domain(s) resolving to that same IP address, and a particular one of the proxy servers receives the packets as a result of an anycast protocol implementation selecting that proxy server. Based on these message(s) from each of the proxy servers, a determination of the likelihood of a packet having a particular source IP address being legitimately received at each of the proxy servers is determined. A message is transmitted to each of the proxy servers that indicates which source IP addresses of packets are not likely to be legitimately received at that proxy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Hahn Holloway, Srikanth N. Rao, Matthew Browning Prince, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Ian Gerald Pye, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Terry Paul Rodery, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10326853
    Abstract: A method and computing device for delta compression techniques for reducing network resource transmission size are described. A first version of a network resource is received. The first version of the network resource is stored regardless of a directive that a cached version is not to be used to respond to a future request for that network resource. A first request for the network resource is received. A second request for the network resource is transmitted, to a second computing device. A response including a set differences between the first version of the network resource with a most current version of the network resource is received from the second computing device without receiving the entire network resource. An updated version of the network resource is transmitted to the client device, where the updated version is generated by applying the set of differences to the first version of the network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventor: John Graham-Cumming
  • Patent number: 9639687
    Abstract: A server receives a piece of data for encryption. The server encrypts the piece of data such that no single key can decrypt the encrypted piece of data and any combination of a first multiple of unique keys taken a second multiple at a time are capable of decrypting the encrypted piece of data. Each of the first multiple of unique keys is tied to account credentials of a different user. The second multiple is less than or equal to the first multiple. The encrypted piece of data is returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9049247
    Abstract: A proxy server receives from a client device a request for a network resource that is hosted at an origin server for a domain. The request is received at the proxy server as a result of a DNS request for the domain resolving to the proxy server. The origin server is one of multiple origin servers that belong to different domains that resolve to the proxy server and are owned by different entities. The proxy server transmits the request to the origin server. Responsive to determining that the origin server is offline, the proxy server determines whether the requested resource is available in cache. If it is in cache, the proxy server retrieves the requested resource from the cache and transmits the requested resource to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Hahn Holloway, Matthew Browning Prince