Patent ID: 11936748
Assignee: CENSYS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:
performing by one or more scan gates of the continuous scanning engine:
creating individual keys of individual attempts to communicate with the at least some ports of the at least some network addresses based at least in part on the respective network address and the respective port number of the attempt to communicate;
maintaining a count of the individual keys;
receiving a request to communicate with a first port at a first network address;
determining that the count of the key associated with the individual attempts to communicate with the first port at the first network address is above a threshold; and
denying the request to communicate with the first port at the first network address;

wherein prior to the attempting to communicate with the at least some ports at the at least some network addresses using the plurality of different application-layer communication protocols, the method further comprises:
determining, from the one or more scan gates, that the attempt to communicate with the first port at the first network address is not allowed, and that the attempt to communicate with a second port at a second network address is allowed; and
attempting to communicate with the second port at the second network address, while not attempting to communicate with the first port at the first network address.