ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,148, issued on May 20, was assigned to NETSKOPE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for device fingerprinting" was invented by Srinivas Akella (San Jose, Calif.) and Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to generate a hyper context associated with a computing device are described. In one embodiment, communication data associated with the computing device is accessed. One or more features associated with the computing device are extracted from the communication data. A type of the computing device is detected. An operating system associated with the computing device is d...