ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,116, issued on May 20, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Detecting shadowed domains" was invented by Janos Szurdi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rebekah Houser (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting shadowed domains is provided. New hostnames are collected for a predetermined period of time. Candidate shadowed domains are selected from the new hostnames. Classification of the candidate shadowed domains is performed based on a plurality of features relating to the candidate shadowed domains to output a set of identified shadowed doma...