ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,336, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus for finding global routing hijacks" was invented by Earl Edward Zmijewski (West Lebanon, N.H.), Douglas Madory (Lebanon, N.H.) and Alexandr Sergeyev (Bedford, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Every day, thousands of routing "hijacks" occur on the Internet, almost all of them benign. The malicious ones and the resulting misdirection of Internet traffic can be identified by applying sophisticated analytics to extensive global real-time feeds of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing updates. When legitimate attacks are ...