Patent ID: 11902320
Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
dividing, by the server computer, the at least one attacking group of client computers into two or more smaller groups of client computers;
providing, by the server computer, an identical care-of address to each of the client computers in each smaller group of client computers of the two or more smaller groups of client computers; and
determining whether a subsequent attack by the one or more attacking computers occurred at the server computer within a predetermined time period includes determining whether a subsequent attack by the one or more attacking client computers of a smaller group of client computers occurred at the server computer within a predetermined time period.