Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Protectwise, Inc.

Joshua J Hollander

Christopher D Bynum

Benjamin E Kornmeier

Eric J Stevens

Antonis Papadogiannakis

Eugene B Stevens, Iv

Embodiments described herein provide for the pseudo-cooperative load balancing and/or distribution of traffic and/or other types of data by independent nodes. Techniques described herein may be considered 'pseudo-cooperative' in that the resulting distribution of traffic and/or other data may resemble load balancing techniques in which various nodes, that serve as an ingress for data for distribution and/or other types of processing, communicate with each other (e.g., share context information) in order to perform load balancing in a coordinated or cooperative manner. In contrast, nodes in accordance with some embodiments described herein may perform load balancing with the same or similar results (e.g., a relatively even distribution of traffic and/or other data), without communicating with each other, thus saving time, processing resources, and/or other resources.

Systems and methods for dynamic pseudo-coopera five load balancing by independent nodes based on differentiated attributes and volume

Systems and methods for dynamic pseudo-cooperative load balancing by independent nodes based on differentiated attributes and volume

Implementations disclosed herein provide a managed security service that distributes processing tasks among a number of network security modules working in parallel to process component portions of a replayed network traffic stream. If a network security module detects a potential security threat, the network security module may generate a delivery request specifying other information potentially useful in further investigation of the potential security threat. The delivery request is communicated to a plurality of other processing entities, such as the other network security modules, and any processing entity currently receiving the requested information may respond to the delivery request. Once a source of the requested information is determined, the requested information is routed to the origin of the request.

Network traffic filtering and routing for threat analysis

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Joshua J Hollander