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And here's a similar patent from Akamai (via @cloudpundit) http://www.google.com/patents/US20130156189 http://www.google.com/patents/US20130156189
by ivanr 12y ago
And here's a similar patent from Akamai (via @cloudpundit) http://www.google.com/patents/US20130156189 http://www.google.com/patents/US20130156189
- zaroth 12y agoLooks like the Akamai patent for basically the exact same process, filed 2012-12-14, priority date 2011-12-16 is still being examined... yet the CloudFlare patent filed 2013-03-07 was granted 2014-07-14. That's a really fast turnaround for CloudFlare, and not sure how the Akamai filing isn't prior art. Actually, the Akamai filing is referenced in the CloudFlare patent.
- makomk 12y agoFrom what I can tell, the main difference is that the claims in CloudFlare's patent describe more of the SSL handshaking process and the subsequent handling of requests (all of which is exactly the same as in standard HTTPS proxying). They both claim exactly the same technique for a web proxy to handle SSL connections without having the private key, but I guess the USPTO decided the fact that CloudFlare described more of that process in their patent claims constituted a improvement on Akamai's invention for some weird reason.