Patents Examined by Nasser Moazami
  • Method and apparatus for enabling peer-to-peer virtual private network (P2P-VPN) services in VPN-enabled network
    Patent number: 7421736
    Abstract: A method for providing peer-to-peer virtual private network (P2P-VPN) services over a network. The method includes identifying subnet and host addresses for each user device requesting participation in a virtual private network (VPN) session. Once the subnet and host addresses are identified, a virtual private host (VPH) is initiated for each user device, where each VPH communicates with each user device via a respective tunnel through the network, thereby enabling secure communications between the user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Sarit Mukherjee, Sanjoy Paul