Patents by Inventor Benjamin C. Eater

Benjamin C. Eater has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for identifying sources of network attacks
    Patent number: 8281400
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying a source of an attack in a network include transmitting an address associated with the attack target to a number of network devices. Each network device may then determine whether a received packet is destined for the attack target and identify, for each packet destined for the attack target, an input interface upon which the packet arrived. Each network device may also count the amount of data destined for the attack target per input interface. A potential source of the attack may then be identified based on the amount of data destined for the attack target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin C. Eater, Robert F. Jaeger