Secure tunneling platform system and method

摘要

A system identifies a user, even a user behind a wireless router, and provides a virtual tunnel over the internet for communication with the user. A data center at an Internet Service Provider may work in concert with a central data center to authenticate the user and to provide access, for example using a layer 2 tunneling protocol and a point-to-point data (PPP) link protocol. A layer 2 tunneling protocol network server (LNS) may provide public IP address translation services.

主权项

1. A system for identifying a user and for providing a virtual tunnel over the Internet for communications of the user, the system comprising:
a tunneling server module configured to receive a user request for authorization to communicate over the virtual tunnel pursuant to a virtual tunneling protocol, and to transmit, based on the user request, an authorization request to an authorization module; the authorization module configured to receive the authorization request from the tunneling server module, and to transmit to the tunneling server module an authorization accept message for the user only when an authorization determination based on a password contained in the user request determines that the user has been authenticated, wherein the password is transmitted to the user by a remote server module and a transmission indicating the authorization determination is received by the authorization module from a server remote from the authorization module; the tunneling server module configured to conduct communication with the user via the virtual tunnel only after the tunneling server module receives the authorization accept message for the user, to receive from the user via the virtual tunnel an Internet request, and to forward the Internet request to a destination address contained in the Internet request; and the tunneling server module configured to receive, responsive to the Internet request, over the Internet, a reply, and to transmit the reply to the user.