Circadence Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio with New U.S. Patent for Overcoming Denial of Service Attacks
Issued Patent is Second for Company this Year
BOULDER, Colorado, July 28 – Circadence Corporation, an industry-leading provider of WAN optimization technology to the US Government and commercial enterprise, announced that it is has been awarded a new patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Company was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,020,783, "Method and System for Overcoming Denial of Service Attacks." This is the sixth patent that has been awarded to Circadence and the second this year to recognize the innovation of Circadence's Web Assured Response Protocol™, or "WARP™" offering, which is based on the Company's patented Transport Morphing Protocol™, or "TMP™." Circadence also has eight pending patent applications and recently filed a provisional patent application for its next-generation web acceleration technology.
"This patent represents yet another milestone in Circadence's intellectual property strategy," said Michael J. Moniz, Chief Executive Officer of Circadence, "and indicates the company's commitment to research and development and to protecting its leadership position as an innovator in field of WAN optimization."
About the Issued Patent
U.S. Patent No.7,020,783, "Method and System for Overcoming Denial of Service Attacks."
This patent describes a system for handling denial of service attacks on behalf of a shared network resource. A request-processing component is deployed within a network, the request-processing component having an interface configured to receive requests on behalf of the shared network resource. A rate control component is then coupled to the request-processing component, with the rate control component comprising program and data structures operable to selectively forward received requests to the shared network resource at a rate selected to prevent the shared network resource from crashing or becoming undesirably busy. Preferably, the system includes a denial of service attack detection component coupled to the request processing component and the rate control component and operable to monitor request metrics from the request-processing component and provide configuration information to the rate control component.
"This patent recognizes our patented transport morphing protocol's superior ability to penetrate challenged networks - including those experiencing Denial of Service (DOS) attacks," said Mark Vange, Chief Technology Officer of Circadence. "It also discloses an architecture that permits our customers to deploy a set of WARP appliances as a DOS mitigation solution."
About Circadence Corporation
Circadence Corporation, founded in 1993 as VR-1, Inc., has its origins in the massive multi-user online simulations industry. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Circadence grew through several acquisitions, successful product launches and the formation of strategic partnerships including Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, and Hewlett Packard. The Company's proven Transport Morphing Protocol (TMP), built into the Company's WARP solution, enables efficient use of bandwidth with additional data transport speed, reliability and consistency.
CONTACT: Peter-Christian Olivo of Circadence Corporation, +1-303-413-8888, polivo@circadence.com
