Shawn Steven Michels

US Patent:

20100042734, Feb 18, 2010

Filed:

Apr 16, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/104335

Inventors:

Atli Olafsson - San Marcos CA, US
Jonathan McKinney - San Diego CA, US
Robert W. Fransdonk - Amstelveen, NL
Shawn Michels - Carlsbad CA, US
Greg Hammill - Carlsbad CA, US
Scott Richard Crowder - Carlsbad CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709229

Abstract:

Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein disallow connections from one or more remote clients associated with an Internet protocol (IP) address for a period of disallowance if a number of connection requests from the one or more clients associated with the IP address exceeds a threshold number during a threshold time period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.