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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2016
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A NAT system is identified as operating in conjunction with a specific IP address, in response to a threshold number of different authenticated computing devices making requests to the web service from the specific IP address during a given time period. The total number of computing devices operating from behind the identified NAT system is estimated, based on how many separate authenticated computing devices make requests to the web service from the IP address during the period of time. When a NAT system is identified, one or more additional action(s) are taken to manage the processing of traffic originating from the specific IP address, taking into account that multiple computing devices are operating behind the identified NAT system. An example action is rate limiting.