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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Kevin D. Himberger, Durham, NC (US);
Benjamin M. Parees, Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
Kevin D. Himberger, Durham, NC (US);
Benjamin M. Parees, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method to protect web applications from malicious attacks and, in particular, a system and method for identification and blocking of malicious DNS servers. The system includes a central processing unit and first program instructions. The first program instructions identify a rogue Domain Name Service (DNS) by identifying that a DNS metric is outside a historical limit. The first program instructions are stored on the computer system for execution by the central processing unit.