US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 7 for "Correlating compromised home internet of things devices with distributed denial of service attacks" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,883, issued on July 7, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Correlating compromised home internet of things devices with distributed denial of service attacks" was invented by Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Shraboni Jana (Danville, Calif.) and Kaustubh Joshi (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed denial of service ("DDoS") attack profiler can determine a plurality of DDoS attack properties associated with a DDoS attack that utilizes an Internet of Things ("IoT") device operating in communication with a home gateway. The DDoS attack profiler can create a DDoS attack profile and can prov...