US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on Dec. 16 for "Context-sensitive token-bucket rate limiting in eBPF" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,215, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Context-sensitive token-bucket rate limiting in eBPF" was invented by Martin Kelly (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for context-sensitive token-bucket rate limiting. A processing device obtains, in a kernel space of an operating system (OS), a message comprising a unique process identifier (UPID) and a message type. The processing device determines whether to send the message from the kernel space to a user space of the OS based on at least one of: the UPID, the message type, or a token count and a d...