US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on June 24 for "Detecting automated attacks on computer systems using real-time clustering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,808, issued on June 24, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Detecting automated attacks on computer systems using real-time clustering" was invented by Tyson J. Thomas (San Francisco) and Zhige Xin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bot detection service is enhanced by providing improved threat scoring using dynamic clustering of telemetry data received from a server. The detection approach leverages the notion that bot traffic is statistically anomalous compared to empirical models of human traffic. In particular, bots have more similar and repeating network patterns (i.e., lists of field v...