Instant Secure Wireless Network Setup
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200344608A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-29

    申请号:US16397935

    申请日:2019-04-29

    申请人: SonicWALL Inc.

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to securely setting up mesh networks in a manner that does not require a physical network cable being attached to a wireless mesh device and that does not require transmitting unencrypted information wirelessly when a mesh network is setup. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may allow a user to choose which mesh nodes can join a network and that user may specificity a custom profile that may include rules that may identify how mesh network identifiers are used, that identify passcodes/passphrases assigned to a particular network, may identify types of traffic that may be passed through particular 802.11 radio channels, or other parameters that may control how traffic is switched between devices in a particular wireless mesh network. This combined with dual factor verification and the use of different types of communication channels make wireless mesh networks easy to deploy and expand.

    ESTABLISHING SIMULTANEOUS MESH NODE CONNECTIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20240323889A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18673699

    申请日:2024-05-24

    申请人: SonicWALL Inc.

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus that registers a plurality of mesh node devices to operate as part of a wireless mesh network after a user device scans encoded information that is unique to each mesh node of a plurality of different mesh nodes. After codes associated with different respective mesh nodes are scanned by a user device, that user device may communicate with these different mesh nodes via a low power communication interface and the user device may send registration information to a registration computer via a secure communication channel. Apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may also receive a validation code from the registration computer via a communication channel that is different from the secure communication channel and these apparatus may then send the validation code to the registration computer via the secure communication channel when the user device is validated by the registration computer.

    Streamlined creation and expansion of a wireless mesh network

    公开(公告)号:US12022295B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US16404655

    申请日:2019-05-06

    申请人: SonicWALL Inc.

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus that registers and configures mesh node devices to operate as part of a wireless mesh network as part of a process that may be referred to as an onboarding process that streamlines. Such an onboarding process may store registration information and configuration information in a database at a computer in the cloud or that is accessible via the Internet. This stored information may be used to easily create or expand a wireless mesh network. This registration information may be cross-referenced with a profile associated with a network configuration, with a customer license, and with an identifier that identifies a wireless mesh network. Profiles consistent with the present disclosure may identify configuration preferences of a wireless mesh network and may identify software components that may be installed at particular mesh nodes when mesh node devices are added to a wireless mesh network.

    METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ELASTIC CONTENT FILTERING SECURITY SERVICE IN A MESH NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20240056813A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18384103

    申请日:2023-10-26

    申请人: SONICWALL INC.

    发明人: Zhuangzhi Duo

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to distributing processing capabilities throughout different nodes in a wireless mesh network. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure increase the efficiency of communications in a wireless mesh network because they help minimize the need to forward communications to other nodes in the wireless mesh network such that an evaluation can be performed. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure may distribute ratings or verdicts associated with previous requests to access data to different nodes in a wireless mesh network without generating additional wireless communications through the wireless mesh network. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure distribute content ratings to different nodes in a wireless network such that different wireless nodes may block redundant requests to undesired content without increasing messaging traffic.

    ELASTIC SECURITY SERVICES LOAD BALANCING IN A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230403558A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-14

    申请号:US18234152

    申请日:2023-08-15

    申请人: SONICWALL INC.

    摘要: The present disclosure distributes processing capabilities throughout different nodes in a wireless network. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure increase the efficiency of communications in a wireless network because they help minimize the need to forward communications to other nodes in the network by allowing different wireless nodes to receive and store content ratings regarding requested content in caches associated with respective wireless nodes. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure perform a load balancing function because they distribute content ratings to different nodes in a wireless network without increasing messaging traffic. As response messages regarding access requests are passed back to a requestor, cache memories at nodes along a communication path are updated to include information that cross-references data identifiers with received content ratings. The cross-referenced data identifiers and content ratings allow each respective wireless node along the communication path to block requests to bad content.

    INSTANT SECURE WIRELESS NETWORK SETUP
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230362645A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-09

    申请号:US18138840

    申请日:2023-04-25

    申请人: SONICWALL INC.

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to securely setting up mesh networks in a manner that does not require a physical network cable being attached to a wireless mesh device and that does not require transmitting unencrypted information wirelessly when a mesh network is setup. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may allow a user to choose which mesh nodes can join a network and that user may specificity a custom profile that may include rules that may identify how mesh network identifiers are used, that identify passcodes/passphrases assigned to a particular network, may identify types of traffic that may be passed through particular 802.11 radio channels, or other parameters that may control how traffic is switched between devices in a particular wireless mesh network. This combined with dual factor verification and the use of different types of communication channels make wireless mesh networks easy to deploy and expand.

    STREAMLINED CREATION AND EXPANSION OF A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20200344599A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-29

    申请号:US16404655

    申请日:2019-05-06

    申请人: SonicWALL Inc.

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus that registers and configures mesh node devices to operate as part of a wireless mesh network as part of a process that may be referred to as an onboarding process that streamlines. Such an onboarding process may store registration information and configuration information in a database at a computer in the cloud or that is accessible via the Internet. This stored information may be used to easily create or expand a wireless mesh network. This registration information may be cross-referenced with a profile associated with a network configuration, with a customer license, and with an identifier that identifies a wireless mesh network. Profiles consistent with the present disclosure may identify configuration preferences of a wireless mesh network and may identify software components that may be installed at particular mesh nodes when mesh node devices are added to a wireless mesh network.

    WIRELESS EXTENDER SECURE DISCOVERY AND PROVISIONING
    8.
    发明申请
    WIRELESS EXTENDER SECURE DISCOVERY AND PROVISIONING 有权
    无线扩展安全发现和提供

    公开(公告)号:US20150055501A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-26

    申请号:US14530668

    申请日:2014-10-31

    申请人: SonicWALL, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W48/10 H04W48/20 H04W24/08

    摘要: According to embodiments of the invention, a first wireless access point discovers a second wireless access point, the first wireless access point tunes its radio and privacy settings, without user input, based upon parameters automatically exchanged in response to the discovery of the second wireless access point, and a secure direct wireless connection is established between the first and second wireless access points using the radio and privacy settings. Adding the first wireless to an existing mesh network includes a determination of the best available direct wireless connection.

    摘要翻译: 根据本发明的实施例,第一无线接入点发现第二无线接入点,第一无线接入点基于根据第二无线接入的发现自动交换的参数而调整其无线电和隐私设置,无需用户输入 并且使用无线电和隐私设置在第一和第二无线接入点之间建立安全的直接无线连接。 将第一个无线网络添加到现有的网状网络中包括确定最佳可用的直接无线连接。

    Analysis of historical network traffic to identify network vulnerabilities

    公开(公告)号:US12056237B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-06

    申请号:US18215943

    申请日:2023-06-29

    申请人: SONICWALL INC.

    IPC分类号: G06F21/56 H04L9/40

    摘要: Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may be used after a computer network has been successfully attacked by new malicious program code. Such methods may include collecting data from computers that have been affected by the new malicious program code and this data may be used to identify a type of damage performed by the new malicious code. The collected data may also include a copy of the new malicious program code. Methods consistent with the present disclosure may also include allowing the new malicious program code to execute at an isolated computer while actions and instructions that cause the damage are identified. Signatures may be generated from the identified instructions after which the signatures or data that describes the damaging actions are provided to computing resources such that those resources can detect the new malware program code.

    Establishing simultaneous mesh node connections

    公开(公告)号:US11997635B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-28

    申请号:US16883275

    申请日:2020-05-26

    申请人: SonicWALL Inc.

    摘要: Methods and apparatus that registers a plurality of mesh node devices to operate as part of a wireless mesh network after a user device scans encoded information that is unique to each mesh node of a plurality of different mesh nodes. After codes associated with different respective mesh nodes are scanned by a user device, that user device may communicate with these different mesh nodes via a low power communication interface and the user device may send registration information to a registration computer via a secure communication channel. Apparatus may also receive a validation code from the registration computer via a communication channel that is different from the secure communication channel and these apparatus may then send the validation code to the registration computer via the secure communication channel when the user device is validated by the registration computer.