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Amazon patents traffic shaper that tweaks network data flow

Amazon describes a system that intercepts network data at an entry point and sends it to a special processor. This processor can change the timing or structure of the data, block it, or send it to a fake trap called a honeypot before it reaches its final destination.

Why it mattersThis helps large companies manage data flow and protect their systems from bad traffic without changing the actual content of the messages.

In the filing’s own words

Techniques for traffic shaping are described. In some examples, an ingress point receives traffic from a source and determines to send the traffic to a traffic shaper instance. The shaper instance is capable of performing one or more of a plurality of actions, wherein the plurality of actions include altering a shape of the traffic prior to sending the traffic to an original destination of the traffic, re-directing the traffic to a honeypot, allowing the traffic without doing altering action, and blocking the traffic.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: configuring one or more rules at a traffic resolver instance, the one or more rules to dictate when traffic received at the traffic resolver instance is to be redirected to a shaper instance; receiving traffic at the traffic resolver instance from a source of traffic; determining, at the traffic resolver instance from packet metadata and telemetry data of the traffic, the traffic should be redirected to the shaper instance, the shaper instance capable of performing one or more of a plurality of actions, wherein the plurality of actions include altering a shape of the traffic prior to sending the traffic to an original destination of the traffic, allowing the traffic without doing altering action, redirecting the traffic to a honeypot, and blocking the traffic; resolving, by the traffic resolver instance, addressing of the traffic such that a new destination for the traffic is the shaper instance; sending, by the traffic resolver instance, the traffic to the shaper instance; altering, by the shaper instance, a shape of the traffic, wherein altering the shape of the traffic does not alter a payload of the traffic; sending the traffic to the original destination of the traffic; and sending a response from the original destination of the traffic to the source of the traffic.

Facts

Company
Amazon (Amazon Technologies, Inc.)
Official title
Systems and methods for traffic shaping
Patent number
US12726519B1
Application number
18902436
Filed
Sep 30, 2024
Granted
Sep 1, 2026
Inventors
8
Claims
20

Classified under

H04L 63/1491 Electricity & electronicsH04L 47/22 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/1425 Electricity & electronics
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