US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 14 for "Mitigating denial of service attacks by leveraging geographical locations of network edges" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,013, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Mitigating denial of service attacks by leveraging geographical locations of network edges" was invented by Hardeep Singh Uppal (Seattle), Matthew Delaney (Portland, Ore.), Akshat Aranya (Portland, Ore.) and Thomas Bradley Scholl (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system analyzes network traffic at the network edge in a Point-of-Presence (POP) to prevent denial of service attacks, such a reflection attack, and filters such attack traffic. The POP can analyze a source identifier of the network traffic, such as a source prefix, and compare the source id...