Transport Intermediation Server Packet Filtering Whitelist
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telecommunications systems face challenges in managing packet delivery efficiently, particularly in ensuring secure and authorized transmission of messages across limited bandwidth resources, where unwanted packets can consume valuable bandwidth and processing resources.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a transport intermediation server to receive messages with unique encryption mechanisms, extract origination and destination identifiers, and apply delivery policies to forward or drop messages based on whitelisting, ensuring only permitted senders can deliver packets to electronic devices, while maintaining encryption security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If transport intermediation server filters packets using delivery policies, then bandwidth efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring delivery policies at the transport intermediation server that contain whitelists of authorized origination identifiers. These policies are established in advance, allowing the server to quickly evaluate incoming packets against pre-defined rules without complex real-time analysis, thus improving bandwidth efficiency while managing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The transport intermediation server acts as an intermediary between content computers and electronic devices. It mediates packet delivery by intercepting packets, evaluating them against delivery policies, and selectively forwarding or dropping them based on authorization. This intermediary role centralizes the filtering function, improving overall bandwidth efficiency while containing system complexity within the intermediation layer.
2Reliability
If encryption is maintained throughout packet delivery, then security is improved, but processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the extraction principle by separating the security verification function from the encryption/decryption process. The transport intermediation server extracts and verifies authorization information from the packet metadata (origination identifier against whitelist) without needing to decrypt the encrypted payload. This allows security evaluation to proceed with minimal processing overhead while maintaining end-to-end encryption for actual content protection.
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AI summary
Portable electronic devices typically have reduced computing resources, including reduced available bandwidth to receive communications. A method, apparatus and system is provided to manage packet delivery to electronic devices to mitigate some of these problems.