US Patent 10230770 Network proxy layer for policy-based application proxies

A system and method for providing a network proxy layer are disclosed. The network proxy layer may receive a connection establishment event for a client connection of an application session and send the client connection event to an application proxy for the application session, the application proxy being associated with an application of a server. Upon establishment of the client connection, the network proxy layer may receive one or more data packets from the client connection. The network proxy layer may further receive a connection establishment event for a server connection of the application session of the server, and receive one or more data packets from the server connection.