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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Applicant:
128 Technology, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventor:
Michael T. Piecuch, Hudson, NH (US);
Assignee:
128 Technology, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/873 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/522 (2013.01); H04L 41/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A self-protecting router limits the extent to which its queues can be filled with potentially malicious or otherwise harmful messages received from outside the router, thereby ensuring the queues have sufficient room to accept messages generated internally within the router and are necessary for management and operation of the router. Such routers are, therefore, immune to attack by floods of messages from malicious or malfunctioning network nodes, such as computers, switches and other routers.