US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 29 for "BGP blackhole and hijack mitigation" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,304, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"BGP blackhole and hijack mitigation" was invented by Jakob Heitz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Juan Alcaide (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mitigating BGP blackholes and hijackings are disclosed herein. The techniques include methods for determining, by a victim autonomous system (AS), that a first AS is associated with a first BGP route that includes the victim AS as the destination or as an AS along the first BGP route to the destination and sending a message to a second AS directing the second AS to refrain from using the f...