ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,715, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).
"Detecting DDoS attackers using intermediaries" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway) and Chris Conrad (Bastrop, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to detect a transmission of a first data packet between a computing device and a server, determine a first amount of time elapsed between the transmission of the first data packet and a transmission of a second data packet, store the ...