Patent 7657934 was granted and assigned to Riverbed Technology on February, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A monitoring device is disposed to thwart denial of service attacks on a data center. The monitoring device is a device that collects statistical information on packets that are sent between a network and the data center for a plurality of customers by examining traffic as if the device was disposed on links that are downstream from links that the provisioned monitor is disposed on.