US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Obscuring private network topologies for P2P group configuration using on-premises proxy services" (German, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,883, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Obscuring private network topologies for P2P group configuration using on-premises proxy services" was invented by Alexander Schafer (Duesseldorf, Germany), Christopher Probst-Ranly (Solingen, Germany) and Stefan Lindmark (Osthammar, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data item is provided to an on-premises proxy service by a peer-to-peer (P2P) client device associated with a video conferencing platform. The P2P client device and the on-premises proxy service are associated with a private network. The data item comprises topological information correspo...