US Patent Issued to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA on May 13 for "Automated web traffic anomaly detection" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,604, issued on May 13, was assigned to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Automated web traffic anomaly detection" was invented by John Hearty (Vancouver, Canada), Jake Madison (Vancouver, Canada), Zhi-Ping Ng (New Westminister, Canada) and Nicholas Desmond (Port Moody, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anomaly detection system that includes a database and a server. The server is connected to the database. The server is configured to identify anomalous web traffic for a certain time period based on one or more client keys from the certain time period. The client key(s) includes at least two characteristic...