ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,717, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cujo LLC (Covina, Calif.).
"Network security with server name indication" was invented by Filip Savin (Vilnius, Lithuania), Leonardas Marozas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Kimmo Kasslin (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives an IP address extracted from an encrypted client hello (ECH) enabled transport layer security (TLS) connection request from a client computing device and identifies, from a list of a plurality of hostnames, a set of hostnames matching the IP address. The device generates a reduced list of the set hostnames matching the IP address and generates...