US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on July 22 for "Intelligent manipulation of denial-of-service attack traffic" (Colorado, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,750, issued on July 22, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Intelligent manipulation of denial-of-service attack traffic" was invented by Christian Jensen (Westminster, Colo.) and Michael Feldpusch (Murrells Inlet, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improved intelligent manipulation of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack traffic are provided. In implementations, a method may include receiving, at a traffic management system, a mirrored first stream of packets from a router on a first link and a mirrored second stream of packets from the router on a second link. The method may further...