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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2014
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);
Lee Howard, Fairfax, VA (US);
Chris Roosenraad, Herndon, VA (US);
TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Traffic is obtained from a plurality of internet protocol version six addresses within a plurality of internet protocol version six blocks; and a first indication of inappropriate traffic is obtained from a first one of the addresses. Responsive to the first indication of inappropriate traffic, a reputation score for a first given one of the blocks, containing the first one of addresses, is incremented by a first predetermined amount; and a reputation score for a second given one of the blocks, adjacent the first given one of the blocks, is incremented by a second predetermined amount which is less than the first predetermined amount. Traffic from the plurality of addresses within the plurality of blocks is passed or blocked in accordance with a policy based on the incremented reputation scores for the first and second given ones of the blocks.