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Methods and apparatus for detecting and/or dealing with denial of service attacks

US9888033B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJul 21, 2014
Grant dateFeb 6, 2018
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Expiry dateFeb 18, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/22
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for detecting and minimizing the effects of Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks in high-speed networks in which packet processing is carried out by multiple processing cores. In one embodiment of the invention a communications method and apparatus detects and deletes denial of service attack packets in a multi-core distributed packet processing system using a lightweight DOS attack packet detection and deletion process.

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