US Patent Issued to Intrado Life & Safety on Oct. 6 for "Detection and methods for handling a TDOS attack" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,776, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intrado Life & Safety Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).

"Detection and methods for handling a TDOS attack" was invented by Carleton A. Smith (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first call; identifying a first telephone number associated with the first call; receiving a second call; identifying a second telephone number associated with the second call; determining to banish the second call, at least in part based the second telephone number and a determination that a number of calls associated with the first telephone number exceeds a predetermined threshold; and...