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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2024
Applicant:

Netscout Systems, Inc., Westford, MA (US);

Inventors:

Steinthor Bjarnason, Fjerdingby, NO;

Brian St. Pierre, Acworth, NH (US);

Assignee:

NetScout Systems, Inc., Westford, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1458 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes instructions that cause processors to store a directed acyclic graph including nodes comprising selector nodes, mitigator nodes, and actor nodes, each of the nodes linked to another node, receive a data packet, inspect, using a selector node, a header of the data packet to determine a protection group, tag the data packet with an identification of the protection group based on the inspection, apply, using a mitigator node, criteria of a protection group policy corresponding to the protection group to the data packet based on the identification of the protection group tagged to the data packet, tag the data packet with a mitigation flag corresponding to a mitigation measure selected based on the application of the criteria of the protection group policy to the data packet, and apply, using an actor node, the mitigation measure corresponding to the mitigation tag to the data packet.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Bjarnason, Steinthor. (2026). Systems and methods for policy driven distributed denial of service mitigation chaining (U.S. Patent No. 12621342). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12621342

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