US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 18 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for query analysis and classification" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,982, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for query analysis and classification" was invented by Bahman Rashidi (Philadelphia) and Vaibhav Garg (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses for query analysis and classification. A plurality of entity identifier queries associated with a plurality of entity identifiers may be received and classified as being legitimate or illegitimate. Illegitimate entity identifier queries may be associated with originating devices that are infected with malware. The...