US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on July 15 for "Systems and methods for detecting the source or sources of denial of service attacks in a mobile environment" (Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,536, issued on July 15, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for detecting the source or sources of denial of service attacks in a mobile environment" was invented by William Northway (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Darren Anstee (Westford, Mass.), Jamie Winquist (Westford, Mass.), Matt Bregger (Westford, Mass.) and Michael Kloos (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting the sources of distributed denial of service attacks is disclosed. Control plane signaling data and user plane data is collected using network monitoring equipment connected to a communications network. The co...