US Patent Issued to Imperva on Sept. 2 for "Infrastructure distributed denial of service protection" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,719, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Imperva Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Infrastructure distributed denial of service protection" was invented by Dvir Shapira (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ehud Cohen (Kfar Saba, Israel), Tomer Bronshtein (Ashdod, Israel), Eyal Leshem (Jerusalem) and Alon Ludmer (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing infrastructure protection for a server of a network organization, the method including announcing, as an internet protocol (IP) address associated with a server of a plurality of servers, a first anycast IP address, the first anycast IP address being one of a plurality of anycast...