US 12,712,849 B2 · Dynamic rate limiting for digital traffic

Abstract

The technology described herein relates to systems, methods, and computer storage media, among other things, for generating recommendations corresponding to whether requests (e.g., transmitted by computing devices) are malicious network traffic. For example, the recommendations can be generated using various historical and current network traffic trends (e.g., associated with a particular application programming interface). As another example, the recommendations can be generated based on particular models. Based on the generated recommendation, dynamic rate limiting rules can be applied for determining whether a request is malicious network traffic. Based on determining the request is malicious network traffic, the request (and additional requests associated with that particular request) can be blocked.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request corresponding to an application programming interface (API);
generating a recommendation corresponding to whether the request is malicious network traffic based on historical and current network traffic associated with the API;
applying a dynamic rate limiting rule to the recommendation based on encrypted metadata that is generated for the recommendation and communicated to a proxy layer, wherein applying the dynamic rate limiting rule supports selectively blocking or permitting the request based on part on the encrypted metadata provided via the proxy layer;
based on applying the dynamic rate limiting rule, determining that the request is the malicious network traffic;
and
blocking the request in response to the request being the malicious network traffic.

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A computer system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a computer storage medium storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, causes the computer system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a computing device, a request corresponding to an application programming interface (API);
generating, via a malicious network traffic recommendation engine, a recommendation corresponding to whether the request is malicious network traffic based on historical and current network traffic;
determining whether the request is the malicious network traffic using the recommendation from the malicious network traffic recommendation engine and applying a dynamic rate limiting rule to the recommendation based on encrypted metadata that is generated for the recommendation and communicated to a proxy layer,
wherein applying the dynamic rate limiting rule supports selectively blocking or permitting the request based on part on the encrypted metadata provided via the proxy layer;
and
blocking the request in response to determining that the request is the malicious network traffic.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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