Patent ID: 7665135

Claim:
A network service system, comprising: a service provider network; one or more protected inbound communication signals, comprising one of an emergency traffic signal and a traffic signal directed to a detection and mitigation protection service subscribing customer; one or more unprotected inbound communication signals; a link utilization monitor, that determines if the service provider network is experiencing a malicious attack; a detection service architecture, that receives the one or more protected inbound communication signals and the one or more unprotected inbound communication signals from the link utilization monitor, separates the one or more protected inbound communication signals from the one or more unprotected inbound communication signals, and drops the one or more unprotected inbound communication signals; and a cleaning center, that receives the one or more protected inbound communication signals forwarded from the detection service architecture, separates the one or more protected inbound communication signals into attacking inbound communication signal traffic and legitimate inbound communication signal traffic, and forwards the legitimate inbound communication signal traffic to the detection and mitigation protection service subscribing customer.