US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 14 for "In-line detection of algorithmically generated domains" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,410, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"In-line detection of algorithmically generated domains" was invented by Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Martin Walter (Livermore, Calif.), Ben Hua (San Jose, Calif.), Suquan Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Fan Fei (San Jose, Calif.), Seokkyung Chung (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jun Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Wei Xu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of algorithmically generated domains is disclosed. A DNS query is received. Markov Chain analysis is performed on a domain included in the received query. A determination of whether the receiv...