US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Oct. 27 for "Dynamic ingress packet filter" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,042, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Dynamic ingress packet filter" was invented by Stewart Bamford (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating a network ingress filter based on both a customer's route object and recent traffic data for the customer. In examples, even though a customer of a provider network may have many routing prefixes in its route object, the customer may genuinely generate traffic from only a very small percentage of such prefixes. Accordingly, a combination of a system to generate all the prefixes based on ...