US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on July 29 for "Techniques for mitigating NIC kTLS denial-of-service attacks" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,462, issued on July 29, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for mitigating NIC kTLS denial-of-service attacks" was invented by Andrew John Gallatin (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a kernel uses a NIC to transmit encrypted data over TCP connections. The kernel causes the NIC to encrypt first data to generate a first transmission control protocol (TCP) packet in accordance with a hardware-based transport layer security (TLS) offload mode. The kernel computes a first re-transmission statistic in response to the first TCP packet failing to reach a first device over a first T...