Patent ID: 6714970
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with access to a plurality of open Web sites responsive to requests from users at IP addresses throughout the Webs, a system for protecting said open Web sites front known malicious users comprising;means associated with a protected open Web site for storing a list of the IP addresses of said known malicious users; means for comparing the IP addresses of each user requesting access to said protected open Web site to said list of IP addresses of said known malicious users; means for providing a plurality of alias addresses for said protected Web site; and means responsive to said comparing means enabled to respectively divert to each of said plurality of alias addresses, one of a plurality of requests respectively from plurality of malicious users, whereby the request of each of said malicious users is diverted to a different one of said alias Web site addresses.