US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Data protection based on intrusion detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,127, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data protection based on intrusion detection" was invented by Gang Lyu (Shanghai), Jing Zhao (Beijing), Fang Yuan Cheng (Beijing), Fu Long Wang (Beijing), Wei Gong (Beijing) and Yun Feng Ma (Bejing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination is made of whether a network attack is suspected. In response to determining that the network attack is suspected, a generation of a snapshot of volumes of data is requested via a low latency link. The snapshot of the volumes of data is generated while the volumes of data are blocked from access...