US Patent Issued to Arbor Networks on March 25 for "Automatic detection of malicious packets in DDOS attacks using an encoding scheme" (Norwegian, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,354, issued on March 25, was assigned to Arbor Networks Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Automatic detection of malicious packets in DDOS attacks using an encoding scheme" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway), Andrew Ralph Beard (Roanoke, Va.) and David Turnbull (Stanmore, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting patterns in network traffic is provided. The method includes receiving packets of network traffic, performing a frequency analysis per field of the packets as a function of frequency of the occurrence of the same data in the corresponding field, and selecting top values which are values assoc...