US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on April 14 for "Systems and methods for customer control of edge service" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,874, issued on April 14, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for customer control of edge service" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network including a wide area network and a local area network, an edge server may be within the wide area network and geographically close to a customer device of the local area network. Such an edge server may be vulnerable to attacks, such as distributed denial of service attacks, including SYN floods. Systems and methods for customer control of edge service are pro...