US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Nov. 4 for "Discriminating defense against DDoS attacks" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,016, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Discriminating defense against DDoS attacks" was invented by Naftaly H. Minsky (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments defend a node in a network, e.g., a server or website, against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks through use of a criterion of discrimination between messages that the defended network node considers important to receive, and all other messages addressed to the defended network node. The use of this new criterion upends the conventional approach to defense against DDoS attacks. Whereas the...