US Patent Issued to Adobe on Sept. 30 for "Web bot detection via behavioral analysis and machine learning" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,254, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Web bot detection via behavioral analysis and machine learning" was invented by Jan Kadel (Hamburg, Germany) and Ritwik Sinha (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for web bot detection using behavioral analysis and machine learning are disclosed. In an example method, a processing device receives an indication of a network interaction by a client agent, from which behaviors of the client agent can be determined. A heuristics module may classify the client agent as in an unknown class based on the behaviors of the client agent. A trained ...