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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2016
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Edward Amoroso, Andover, NJ (US);
Albert Greenberg, Summit, NJ (US);
Balachander Krishnamurthy, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, LP., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 12/2602 (2013.01); H04L 29/12009 (2013.01); H04L 29/12783 (2013.01); H04L 43/00 (2013.01); H04L 61/35 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 63/1491 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described is a method of assigning a network address to a trap, the network address being a dark address of a virtual private network. The network traffic destined for the network address is monitored and a classification of the network traffic is determined. After the classification, a predetermined response is executed based on the classification of the traffic.