Methods and apparatus for detecting and/or dealing with denial of service attacks
US9888033B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 21, 2014 |
| Grant date | Feb 6, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 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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