US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for mitigating denial of service attacks" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,924, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for mitigating denial of service attacks" was invented by Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.) and John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for using router identifier information to mitigate denial of service attacks in an autonomous system (AS). Each router of the AS may be assigned a router identifier (ID) that is unique to the AS and may be periodically changed. The ingress router first receiving the packet within a particular AS may i...