US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Browser impersonator detection (BID) system" (Indian, American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,598, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Browser impersonator detection (BID) system" was invented by Srinivasa Thumma (Ashburn, Va.), Anil Vaddi (Aurora, Colo.), Ankush Patankar (Guelph, Canada), Mahalingaiah Rangaswamaiah (Bangalore, India), Ixit Shah (Bangalore, India) and Dimpy Joshi (Tiruppur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bot detection service associated with an overlay network and configured as a centralized control plane, and a data plane that operates in an overlay network entity, e.g., an edge server. The control plane performs analytics continuously to generate a machin...