Injection URL Engine for Web Traffic Anonymity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users' web usage patterns can be uniquely identified by other parties while browsing, leading to potential tracking and loss of anonymity, as existing methods do not effectively obscure these patterns.
Innovation Solution
A method involving an injection URL engine integrated into a proxy server that monitors web address requests and injects random valid requests into outbound traffic to obscure the user's web usage patterns, disrupting identification by injecting random valid URLs when a matching pattern is detected.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If web usage patterns are monitored and analyzed to identify users, then user identification accuracy is improved, but user anonymity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a proxy server as an intermediary between the user and the web. This proxy server captures and analyzes web usage patterns to identify users, rather than allowing websites to directly track users. The proxy server acts as a mediator that protects user anonymity while still enabling identification when needed, resolving the contradiction between identification accuracy and anonymity preservation.
2Loss of information
If random valid web address requests are injected into outbound web traffic, then user anonymity is improved, but web traffic volume is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by injecting random valid web address requests only when specific conditions are met (when a pattern match is detected), rather than continuously injecting random requests. This selective approach provides anonymity protection when needed while minimizing unnecessary traffic generation, resolving the contradiction between anonymity and traffic volume.
3Loss of information
If web usage patterns are obscured by injecting random requests, then user anonymity is improved, but web browsing efficiency is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by monitoring web usage patterns at intervals and injecting random requests only when pattern matches are detected, rather than continuously obscuring all traffic. This periodic approach maintains anonymity when suspicious patterns are found while allowing normal browsing to proceed efficiently without constant interference, resolving the contradiction between anonymity and browsing efficiency.
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AI summary
An injection engine monitors whether a pattern of a current selection of web address requests in outbound web traffic for a user matches one or more web usage patterns that allow for identifying the user based on the current selection of web address requests. The injection engine, responsive to detecting the pattern of the current selection of web address requests by the user matches the one or more web usage patterns, injects one or more random valid web address requests into the outbound web traffic for the user, wherein the one or more random valid web address requests obscure the current selection of web address requests from using the one or more web usage patterns.


