US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on April 14 for "Systems and methods for increased security using client address manipulation" (Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,916, issued on April 14, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for increased security using client address manipulation" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.), Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.), Lisa Lamanna (Harrisonburg, Va.), James C. Anders (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Dan Luther (Claremore, Okla.) and Carol D. Lovell (West Monroe, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network system in which a server receives packets each including a source address, and in which the server ordinarily responds to each packet, Distributed Denial of Service attacks may be launched by malicious actors control...