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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventor:
Balachander Krishnamurthy, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 51/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/1458 (2013.01); H04L 2463/144 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for enabling peer networks to reduce the exchange of unwanted traffic are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least one of: a source Internet Protocol (IP) address or a source IP address prefix that has been identified as a source of the unwanted traffic, by an originating peer network from a terminating peer network. The method then blocks the unwanted traffic destined to the terminating peer network by the originating peer network.