ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,317, issued on April 8, was assigned to Conviva Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"IP classification" was invented by Yan Li (Foster City, Calif.), Xi Xiong (San Jose, Calif.) and Yasar Arafath Rafi Ahmed (Tirupur District, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses is received wherein each IP address is associated with a corresponding set of features. For an IP address in the set, the IP address is evaluated based at least in part on a set of inclusion criteria. For the IP address in the set, a likelihood that the IP address is residential or non-residential is generated based at least in part on the co...