The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
John A. Dilley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stephen L. Ludin, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Sudhin Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik Nygren, Somerville, MA (US);
Philip Lisiecki, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Karl-Eliv J. Hallin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joshua Hunt, Mandeville, LA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
According to certain non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein, the functionality of a server is extended with a mechanism for identifying connections with clients that have exhibited attack characteristics (for example, characteristics indicating a DoS attack), and for transitioning internal ownership of those connections such that server resources consumed by the connection are reduced, while keeping the connection open. The connection thus moves from a state of relatively high resource use to a state of relatively low server resource use. According to certain non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein, the functionality of a server is extended by enabling the server to determine that any of a client and a connection exhibits one or more attack characteristics (e.g., based on at least one of client attributes, connection attributes, and client behavior during the connection, or otherwise). As a result of the determination, the server changes its treatment of the connection.