ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,578, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYAS Infosec Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Tiered remediation of outlier domain name system requests" was invented by David J. Mitchell (Danville, Calif.) and Paul C. van Gool (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables remediation of outlier DNS requests using tiered remedial actions. In a particular example, a method provides grouping DNS requests into one or more groups based on characteristics of the DNS requests and identifying an outlier request of the DNS requests. The outlier request is one of the DNS requests that is not included in the on...