US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on July 8 for "Systems and methods for blocking spoofed traffic" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,725, issued on July 8, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for blocking spoofed traffic" was invented by Brent W. Smith (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for blocking spoofed traffic within communications networks include obtaining, at a computing system, routing information for an autonomous system of a communications network, the routing information identifying Internet Protocol (IP) addresses associated with the autonomous system. In response to receiving the routing information, the computing system generates a prefix list based on the routing information, the p...