ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,267, issued on May 5.
"Hostname based reverse split tunnel with wildcard support" was invented by Vishnu Prateek Ponaka (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Gaikwad (Bengaluru, India), Jateen Mittal (Bengaluru, India) and Vinay Kumar Kothiyal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present solution provides systems and methods for establishing and implementing a hostname-based split tunneling of client-side network traffic. A driver on a client can receive a first packet of an application that includes a hostname of a destination. The driver can receive from an agent of the client a real IP address and a spoofed IP address correspo...