US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on May 27 for "Bot detection in an edge network using transport layer security (TLS) fingerprint" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,672, issued on May 27, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Bot detection in an edge network using transport layer security (TLS) fingerprint" was invented by David Senecal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew Kahn (San Francisco), Ory Segal (Herzliya, Israel), Elad Shuster (Herzliya, Israel) and Duc Nguyen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a technique to fingerprint TLS connection information to facilitate bot detection. The notion is referred to herein as "TLS fingerprinting." Preferably, TLS fingerprinting herein comprises combining different parameters from the initial...