Patent 11777760 was granted and assigned to Hughes Network Systems on October, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods for estimating the kind of traffic a VPN is carrying and determining which WAN connection to use for VPN network traffic to reduce usage costs while maintaining responsiveness in a VPN router or gateway. A VPN classifier examines VPN packets and estimates the type of traffic they are carrying and selects a policy for upstream or downstream traffic to determine which tunnel or tunnels to send network traffic. Further, policies may be applied to VPN packets as a function of usage knob.