Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Nathan Stanley Burkhart

David Benson Cross

Michael Ellsworth Bundy

Steven Simons Armato

Kalyanaraman Prasad

Lee Holmes

Hitesh Raigandhi

Fnu Arun Singhal

Manoj Kumar Ampalam

Vidhi Vinodkumar Bhagdev

Ngochan Thi Nguyen

Maxim Kormilitsin

Paul Jeffrey Stroup

Vikas Agarwal

Pavlo Korohod

Systems and methods may be provided for determining, assigning and directing containers for transshipment between facilities without using an item-level sortation process and moving containers from a receiving area of a facility to an outbound dock without placing the items into inventory. A facility may or may not have item-level sortation processing. Data indicating received items is received. A determination is made for which of the received containers are for transshipment from the materials handling facility based on multiple factors. Containers in receiving that are determined for transshipment may be directed from receive to outbound docks without placing the items into inventory and without using an item-level sortation process. Pallets may be transshipped without placing the items into inventory and without depalletization. A facility with sortation may switch from item-level sortation of transshipments to container-level crossdock transshipment when a sortation process of a processing line approaches or exceeds capacity.

Crossdocking transshipments without sortation

An input port for a computer system may retain potentially authenticable requests for processing while removing other connection requests from an incoming queue or request pool. The input port may continue to receive new requests even during a denial of service attack, allowing potentially legitimate requests to be processed. In a typical embodiment, a first in, first out buffer may be used to receive and process connection requests. When the buffer is full, any request that comes from a device having a previous connection with the computer system may be retained for authentication, while removing requests that come from unknown devices. Some embodiments may retain a list of known devices associated with administrators or other known users, and the list may be updated as those users are authenticated.

Denial of service attack resistant input port

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Nathan Stanley Burkhart