ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,809, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Network routing anomaly detection" was invented by Jonathan Phillibert (Seattle), Kushal Mall (Issaquah, Wash.) and Thomas Bradley Scholl (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer networking system, data is transmitted through a network based on advertised routes. The disclosure provides mechanisms for detecting anomalies in network routing by analyzing autonomous system (AS) paths in data corresponding to Border Gateway Protocol (BPG) messages. The AS path information from the BGP message data may be evaluated to detect different types of anomal...