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Sandvine Corporation

Sandvine Incorporated Ulc

Sandvine Technologies Inc.

Harmeet Singh Bedi

Don Bowman

A system for detecting a source or destination of abnormal message traffic on a network, the system having: an abnormality detection engine configured to track messages between a plurality of sources and a plurality of destinations; and one or more abnormality detectors configured to: determine a bandwidth variation of a rate of messages to a destination, wherein determining the bandwidth variation comprises: generate a bandwidth counter for each destination; update the bandwidth counter based on the rate of messages to a destination; determine if a predetermined amount of time has passed; and compare values in the source and destination pair counter to a predetermined source and destination pair threshold and comparing values in the bandwidth counter to a predetermined steady rate of messages after the predetermined amount of time has passed to determine if there is abnormal message traffic related to a source or destination based on both comparisons.

System and method for detecting sources of abnormal computer network messages

The present invention relates generally to a system and method for the monitoring of email and other message traffic on a network. The intent of the monitoring to determine if message traffic is abnormal, thus indicating unwanted messages such as spam. A number of methods may be utilized by the invention to recognize unwanted messages, including the calculation of fanout, the number of messages sent by a unique host, unique email address or domain. Also included is fanin, the number of messages received from unique hosts, unique domains or unique email addresses. Further components consider the number of error messages received from a host, variations in bandwidth from a host, and variations in message content from a host.

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