Patent ID: 7039950
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of ensuring a quality of services being provided by a protected network of computers during an ongoing security breach, the quality of the services being ensured by performing secure Quality of Service (sQoS) actions on one or more data packets, the data packets being directed from one or more source computers to a destination computer, the source computers and the destination computer being a part of a network of computers, the sQoS actions being performed in response to receiving a triggering information from an external system, the triggering information comprising information regarding the type of attack, the method comprising the steps of: a. performing the sQoS actions on each of the data packets, the actions depending on the triggering information received, the step of performing the sQoS actions on each of the data packets further comprising the steps of: b. releasing the data packets after the sQoS actions are performed.