US Patent Issued to Arbor Networks on Feb. 24 for "System and method for detecting patterns in structured fields of network traffic packets" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,091, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Arbor Networks Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"System and method for detecting patterns in structured fields of network traffic packets" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer method and system for determining patterns in network traffic packets having structured subfields for generating filter candidate regular expressions for DDoS attack mitigation. Stored packets are analyzed to extract a query name for each stored packet. Each query name is segregated into subfields. A Results-table is generated utilizing the segregated subfields of the qu...