ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,460, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Network switch and abnormity detecting method" was invented by Sz-Han Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kai-Wen Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ming-Dao Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch is configured to receive packet data. The network switch includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store an access control list and an abnormity detecting program, filter the packet data according to the access control list, and perform an abnormity detecting procedure on the packet data according to the abnormity detecti...