ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,208, issued on April 22, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).
"Event driven route control" was invented by Robert Smith (Irvine, Calif.), Shawn Marck (San Francisco) and Christopher Newton (Westlake Village, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide system and methods for a DDoS service using a mix of mitigation systems (also called scrubbing centers) and non-mitigation systems. The non-mitigation systems are less expensive and thus can be placed at or near a customer's network resource (e.g., a computer, cluster of computers, or entire network). Under normal conditions, traffic for a customer's resourc...