Patent ID: 9621577
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for mitigating denial of service attacks using a mitigation gateway configured to receive and divert network traffic directed to a remote computing system in communication with the mitigation gateway via a computer network, the mitigation gateway being physically located proximate to a network aggregation point including an Internet service provider (“ISP”) gateway or an Internet exchange point (“IXP”) gateway, the method comprising: receiving, at the mitigation gateway, traffic information from the remote computing system, the traffic information including data indicating that the remote computing system is under a distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack and data representing a source identification, a destination identification, and an action to be performed on network traffic associated with the DDoS attack; in response to receiving the traffic information, at the mitigation gateway, negotiating with the network aggregation point for a permission to divert additional network traffic passing through the network aggregation point to the remote computing system from a source associated with the source identification, the negotiating including: