US Patent Issued to ARBOR NETWORKS on June 24 for "System and method for obscuring status of a network service" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,810, issued on June 24, was assigned to ARBOR NETWORKS INC. (Westford, Mass.).

"System and method for obscuring status of a network service" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway) and Sean O'Hara (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method system for obscuring the status of a network service provided by a network device. Received in a network monitoring device is network packet request message intended for a network device. The network monitoring device analyzes the received network packets request to determine whether the received network packet request is a DDoS network probe packet...