Patents by Inventor Matt Weinberg

Matt Weinberg 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).

  • Method and system for detecting and mitigating denial-of-service attacks
    Patent number: 10547636
    Abstract: A method of detecting a DDOS attack is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, at an authoritative DNS server, a plurality of DNS query packets from a plurality of DNS requestors over a communications network; analyzing, by an electronic processor, a set of the plurality of DNS query packets; determining, by an electronic processor, that a subset of the plurality of DNS query packets of the set meets a predetermined threshold for a rate of DNS queries; filtering the plurality of DNS query packets based on the determining to produce a filtered number of DNS query packets; and providing, by the authoritative DNS server, a DNS response for the plurality of DNS query packets that were filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Duane Wessels, Matt Weinberg
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND MITIGATING DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACKS
    Publication number: 20180183830
    Abstract: A method of detecting a DDOS attack is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, at an authoritative DNS server, a plurality of DNS query packets from a plurality of DNS requestors over a communications network; analyzing, by an electronic processor, a set of the plurality of DNS query packets; determining, by an electronic processor, that a subset of the plurality of DNS query packets of the set meets a predetermined threshold for a rate of DNS queries; filtering the plurality of DNS query packets based on the determining to produce a filtered number of DNS query packets; and providing, by the authoritative DNS server, a DNS response for the plurality of DNS query packets that were filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Duane Wessels, Matt Weinberg