US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 25 for "Information security system and method for denial-of-service detection" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,879, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Information security system and method for denial-of-service detection" was invented by Xiao Jun Zhang (Irvine, Calif.), Neetika Singh (Simi Valley, Calif.), Jesse Deping Meng (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Bruce Williams (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Joshua Samuel Drucker (Maricopa, Ariz.) and Cynthia Diane Dieterich (Wrightwood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on one or more user profiles collects a number of invalid sign-on attempts on the one or more user profiles during every time interval. The ...