US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on May 5 for "Systems and methods for policy driven distributed denial of service mitigation chaining" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,342, issued on May 5, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for policy driven distributed denial of service mitigation chaining" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway) and Brian St. Pierre (Acworth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes instructions that cause processors to store a directed acyclic graph including nodes comprising selector nodes, mitigator nodes, and actor nodes, each of the nodes linked to another node, receive a data packet, inspect, using a selector node, a header of the data packet to determine a protection group, tag the data packet with an ...