ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,407, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Anonymizing client-side addresses" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric A Voit (Bethesda, Md.) and Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using Prefix Address Translation (PAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than allowing a server and/or endpoint have visibility of a client IP address of a client device accessing the server and/or endpoint, a virtual network service instead returns a PAT IP...