US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 8 for "Assessing coordinated malicious behavior towards a service provider network" (Maryland, Virginia, Minnesota, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,782, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Assessing coordinated malicious behavior towards a service provider network" was invented by Jared Sylvester (Ellicott City, Md.), Michael Lowney (Arlington, Va.), Catherine Watkins (Minneapolis), Wayne Alan Fullen (Falls Church, Va.), John Paul Schweitzer (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Sameer Anil Murudkar (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes building a graph that is based on which IP address sources are active in the same time periods. By creating a node for each IP address with some moderate level of suspicious activity and ...