Patent Document ID: 9141789
Application ID: 13943429
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising the steps of: a) polling a traffic rate for each Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Device in a first plurality of DDoS Devices, wherein the first plurality of DDoS Devices is receiving a network traffic entering a network; b) determining a throughput capability for each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices; c) determining whether each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices can handle its polled traffic rate without intervention by comparing its polled traffic rate with its throughput capability; d) for each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices that can handle its polled traffic rate without intervention, removing a past DDoS mitigation; e) determining a malicious traffic rate for each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices; f) determining an operational limit capability for each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices; g) for each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices that has its malicious traffic rate approach its operational limit capability within a predetermined amount, sending a notification to a monitor web page; and h) for each DDoS Device in the first plurality of DDoS Devices that has its malicious traffic rate greater than its operational limit capability, sending a notification to the monitor web page and routing traffic from the DDoS Device to a second DDoS Device that has an operational limit capability greater than the malicious traffic rate.