US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 12 for "Detecting a TCP session hijacking attack" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,844, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Detecting a TCP session hijacking attack" was invented by Orazio Toscano (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system (500) is configured to detect a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session hijacking attack on a TCP session. In particular, the computing system monitors for nonsequential packets of the TCP session. The nonsequential packets each comprise a sequence number (220) that is different from a next expected sequence number of the TCP session. The computing system (500) calculates, for each of a plurality of time...