Onion Routing Network for Smart Homes


Adam Vandenbussche, David Kotz, and Timothy Pierson. Onion Routing Network for Smart Homes. U.S. Patent 12,665,877, June 23, 2026. Priority date 2022-05-12; filed 2023-05-12; published 2023-11-16 as US20230370425A1; allowed 2026-03-10; issued 2026-06-23. Related to vandenbussche:thesis.

Abstract:

A method of providing user data privacy for smart devices in a user's home uses a network of smart home routers to route encrypted data packets from the smart devices instead of sending them directly to a cloud-based service. An onion routing network for protecting the privacy of smart devices uses a plurality of smart home routers and an allowlist of domains accessed by smart devices to decide which data packets are routed through the network.

Citable with [BibTeX]: \cite{vandenbussche:patent}

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Keywords: [iot] [patent] [privacy] [security]

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