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US 2026/0246768 A1Published application
Systems and methods for customer control of edge service
AssigneeCenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
InventorsJohn R.B. Woodworth, Dean Ballew
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Abstract
In a network including a wide area network and a local area network, an edge server may be within the wide area network and geographically close to a customer device of the local area network. Such an edge server may be vulnerable to attacks, such as distributed denial of service attacks, including SYN floods. Systems and methods for customer control of edge service are provided while mitigating such attacks.
Claims18
A system, comprising:
- a network switching device operably connected to a wide area network and to a local area network, the network switching device comprising:
- at least one processing circuit;
- and
- memory, operatively connected to the at least one processing circuit and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing circuit, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection request, from a first device, on the wide area network;
- determining that the TCP connection request is related to a second device, on the local area network;
- and
- in response to the TCP connection request:
- causing a first TCP connection to be created between the network switching device and the first device;
- and
- causing a second TCP connection to be created between the network switching device and the second device.
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A system comprising:
- a first server, the first server being connected to a wide area network and comprising:
- at least one processing circuit;
- and
- memory, operatively connected to the at least one processing circuit and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing circuit, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving an instruction to establish a connection with a first device, the first device being connected to a local area network, the local area network being connected to the wide area network through a first network switching device;
- and
- sending a connection request to the first network switching device.
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A system, comprising:
- a network switching device operably connected to a wide area network and to a local area network, the network switching device comprising:
- at least one processing circuit;
- and
- memory, operatively connected to the at least one processing circuit and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing circuit, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving an initiation message from a first device, on the local area network;
- transmitting the initiation message to a second device, on the wide area network, wherein the second device is a registration server;
- receiving a first connection request for the first device from a third device, on the wide area network;
- and
- in response to the connection request, sending, to the first device, instructions to establish a second connection with the network switching device, on a local area network side of the network switching device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.