US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Aug. 12 for "Attack prevention method for dealing with authentication flooding attack, association flooding attack, and/or reassociation flooding attack and access point using the same" (Taiwanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,228, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Attack prevention method for dealing with authentication flooding attack, association flooding attack, and/or reassociation flooding attack and access point using the same" was invented by Ming-Wang Guo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Santwana Panigrahy (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attack prevention method includes: receiving an authentication request frame; and in response to receiving the authentication request frame, replying with an authentication response frame that is sent to a non-access-point (non-AP) station (STA), wherein the authenti...