Patents by Inventor Brian Prodoehl
Brian Prodoehl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11956008Abstract: One example may include transmitting data between a client device and a server over a first channel, sending test data on a second channel to identify a transmission rate of the second channel, comparing the transmission rate to a transmission rate threshold, and determining whether to perform bonding of the first channel with the second channel based on the transmission rate of the second channel being greater or less than the transmission rate threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Harry Volek, Brian Prodoehl, Alexander Gizis
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Patent number: 11956320Abstract: Connecting a client computer to a server may include receiving a first request at the server from the client computer for content managed by the server, and the first request includes a communication protocol and is sent from a first access point, receiving a second request at the server from the client computer for the content managed by the server, and the second request is transmitted from a second access point prior to the server responding to the first request and includes a different communication protocol than the first request, determining by the server the first request and the second request share a common attribute, transmitting a connection acceptance message from the server to the client computer identifying a selected one of the first request and the second request based on a most optimal connection associated with the selected request, and establishing a connection between the server and the client computer based on the selected request.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Kevin Cunningham, Brian Lutz, Alexander Gizis
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Patent number: 11956217Abstract: One example may include forwarding a request sent outside a VPN server, via a client device, to access a second communication network detected by the client device, and the client device is communicating with the VPN server over a first communication network, responsive to receiving a captive portal, forwarding, via the client device, authentication information to obtain access to the second communication network, and the authentication information is not forwarded to the VPN server, and receiving data, by the client device, from a remote server over a bonded connection including a first connection provided by the first communication network bonded with a second connection provided by the second communication network to form the bonded connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Brian Lutz, Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis
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Publication number: 20240106752Abstract: An example method may include receiving upload packets, at an interconnect server center (ISC) device from a virtual private network (VPN) client device, and the upload packets may include a header identifying the (ISC) device and a destination server as destination fields, transmitting, via the ISC device, tests packets along a plurality of different Internet pathways to identify network characteristics of the Internet pathways, determining an amount of time until one or more responses to the test packets are received, and forwarding the upload packets to a VPN server for routing to the destination server via an Internet pathway selected based on the amount of time associated with the received test packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Kevin Cunningham
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Patent number: 11943326Abstract: One example may include a process that includes establishing a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection between a client device and a server to form a virtual private network (VPN), permitting communication between the client device and the server on the TCP connection, monitoring, via the VPN server, communication over the TCP connection to identify one or more connection parameters, establishing a second connection between the client device and the server when the one or more connection parameters indicate a slowing of the TCP connection below a threshold and below a previously measured connection rate, receiving, via the TCP connection, application data used by one of the applications operating on the client device, and receiving, via the second connection, application data used by another application of the applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Harry Volek, Brian Prodoehl, Alexander Gizis
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Patent number: 11936522Abstract: One example process may include enabling a connection between one of a plurality of client devices and one or more servers via one of a plurality of virtual private network servers (VPNs), monitoring connection performance of the connection over a period of time, modifying one or more connection parameters associated with the connection of the one client device based on the monitored connection performance, identifying whether an increase or decrease in a performance of the connection has occurred based on the modified one or more connection parameters, when an increase in performance is identified, storing a current connection status and the modified one or more modified connection parameters in a temporary data file, and transmitting the temporary data file to one or more of the other VPN servers and the plurality of client devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Brian Prodoehl, Alexander Gizis
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Patent number: 11876712Abstract: An example method may include identifying upload packets at a VPN client operating on a client device, and the upload packets include a header with a destination server as the destination field and the client device as the source field, adding, via the VPN client, an additional header identifying the client device in an additional source field and identifying an interconnect server center (ISC) device in an additional destination field, to create modified upload packets, receiving the modified upload packets from the client device at the ISC device, replacing, via the ISC device, the additional source field of the modified upload packets with a new additional source field identifying the ISC device and replacing the additional destination field of the modified upload packets with a new additional destination field identifying a VPN server to create further modified upload packets, and forwarding the further modified upload packets to the VPN server for routing to the destination server.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Kevin Cunningham
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Publication number: 20230421409Abstract: One example may include transmitting a request from a first device to a second device to retrieve data from a remote server, and the first device and the second device are operating on a common network, responsive to receiving the request, transmitting a connection request, via the second device, to a virtual private network (VPN) server over a connection between the second device and the VPN server, receiving from the VPN server, via the second device, a portion of the data retrieved from the remote server over the connection between the second device and the VPN server, and transmitting, via the second device, the portion of the data over the common network to the first device, and wherein the first device combines the portion of the data with another portion of the data received from the VPN server.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis, Brian Lutz
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Publication number: 20230379377Abstract: One example process may include determining, via a virtual private network (VPN) server, one or more client devices are currently content sharing during a conference including a plurality of active client devices, monitoring, via the VPN server, communication session parameters of one or more of the client devices which are forwarding the shared content to the VPN server, and the shared content is destined for one or more of the other client devices, modifying, via the VPN server, one or more of the communication session parameters of the one or more client devices which are forwarding the shared content to the VPN server, and determining whether the modified one or more communication session parameters have increased a performance of the one or more other client devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Alexander Gizis, Brian Prodoehl, Kevin Cunningham
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Publication number: 20230353541Abstract: One example method of operation may include determining whether a data request initiated by a client device to obtain data from a remote server should be forwarded by a virtual private network (VPN) server or outside of the VPN server, forwarding, via the client device, a data fetch outside of the virtual private network (VPN) server in communication with the client device, to obtain the data from the remote server, and the remote server is identified on a list identifying servers requiring non-VPN communications, receiving the data from the remote server, via the client device, outside of the VPN server, forwarding, via the client device, a request for additional data to the VPN server, and receiving the additional data from the VPN server at the client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Connectify, Inc.Inventors: Brian Lutz, Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis, Brian Prodoehl
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Publication number: 20230319148Abstract: One example may include identifying a communication session between a client device and a virtual private network (VPN) server has paused based on inactivity criteria, releasing communication session resources used by the communication session to a session resource pool, receiving a message at the VPN server from the client device indicating previously used session information, and re-establishing the communication session and resuming session data transfers between the client device and the VPN server using one or more of the communication session resources from the resource pool.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis, Brian Prodoehl
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Publication number: 20230291714Abstract: One example may include forwarding a request sent outside a VPN server, via a client device, to access a second communication network detected by the client device, and the client device is communicating with the VPN server over a first communication network, responsive to receiving a captive portal, forwarding, via the client device, authentication information to obtain access to the second communication network, and the authentication information is not forwarded to the VPN server, and receiving data, by the client device, from a remote server over a bonded connection including a first connection provided by the first communication network bonded with a second connection provided by the second communication network to form the bonded connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Brian Lutz, Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis
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Patent number: 11743235Abstract: One example method of operation may include receiving a data request from a client device to retrieve data from one or more servers, identifying from the data request one or more of a domain name and an IP address associated with the one or more servers, determining whether the data will be routed through a VPN server or through a non-VPN route among the one or more servers based on a comparison of one or more of the domain name and the IP address with one or more lists stored in a VPN client application memory associated with the VPN server, and routing the data through the VPN server or outside the VPN server based on results of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Brian Lutz, Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis, Brian Prodoehl
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Patent number: 11716395Abstract: One example process may include identifying a paused active communication session between a client device and a server, releasing communication session resources dedicated to the communication session to a session resource pool, and re-establishing the active data session responsive to receiving a message from the client device including one or more session re-establishment parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis, Brian Prodoehl
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Publication number: 20230224234Abstract: One example may include a process that includes establishing a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection between a client device and a server to form a virtual private network (VPN), permitting communication between the client device and the server on the TCP connection, monitoring, via the VPN server, communication over the TCP connection to identify one or more connection parameters, establishing a second connection between the client device and the server when the one or more connection parameters indicate a slowing of the TCP connection below a threshold and below a previously measured connection rate, receiving, via the TCP connection, application data used by one of the applications operating on the client device, and receiving, via the second connection, application data used by another application of the applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Harry Volek, Brian Prodoehl, Alexander Gizis
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Patent number: 11689504Abstract: Data networking may include forwarding, via a client device, data across a first communication network to a virtual private network (VPN) server, wherein the data is destined for a remote server, forwarding a request sent outside the VPN server, via the client device, to access a second communication network detected by the client device, receiving, via the client device, a captive portal requiring authentication information, forwarding, via the client device, the authentication information to an authentication server to obtain access to the second communication network, wherein the authentication information is not forwarded to the VPN server, and forwarding and receiving additional data, via the client device, to the VPN server concurrently across the first communication network and the second communication network.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Brian Lutz, Kevin Cunningham, Alexander Gizis
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Publication number: 20230198571Abstract: One example may include transmitting data between a client device and a server over a first channel, sending test data on a second channel to identify a transmission rate of the second channel, comparing the transmission rate to a transmission rate threshold, and determining whether to perform bonding of the first channel with the second channel based on the transmission rate of the second channel being greater or less than the transmission rate threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Harry Volek, Brian Prodoehl, Alexander Gizis
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Publication number: 20230171683Abstract: One example process may include determining whether an Internet connection of a client device to a network is to a primary priority network or a lesser priority network based on a network type, identifying one or more network parameters associated with the network when the network type is a primary priority network, and determining whether to maintain the Internet connection and whether to change a network priority of the network based on the one or more network parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Alexander Gizis, Brian Prodoehl, Kevin Cunningham
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Patent number: 11647069Abstract: A VPN is established between a client and a remote server. Data is partitioned into a plurality of packets. The packets are encrypted and scheduled for transmission over a cellular and a Wi-Fi connection. Scheduling of the packets is dynamically adjusted. Addresses of the encrypted packets are translated to match network addresses of respective physical interfaces. Packets are transmitted from the client to the server based on the scheduling. A packet that is transmitted on one of the connections and is subsequently lost is subsequently transmitted on the other connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: CONNECTIFY, INC.Inventors: Brian Prodoehl, Brian Lutz, Alexander Gizis, David Lewanda
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Publication number: 20230135588Abstract: One example method of operation may include transmitting, via a first computer device to a second computer device, a first portion of packets of a data stream over a first channel and a second portion of the packets of the data stream over a second channel bonded with the first channel, and the first portion and the second portion include different packets of the data stream, determining the data stream experienced a potential network communication error, and retransmitting at least a portion of the data stream packets over a mirrored channel transmission with the first and second channels which both retransmit in parallel at least a same portion of the retransmitted portion of the data stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Kevin Cunningham, Brian Prodoehl, Alexander Gizis