US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Method to randomize online activity" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,788, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method to randomize online activity" was invented by Christian Garcia-Arellano (Richmond Hill, Canada), Matthias Seul (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Mehran Khan (Ottawa), Daniel Silveira (Toronto) and Zvonimir Fras (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for digital fingerprint obfuscation is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes training a machine learning model to classify web traffic data into one or more personas. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying, using the traine...