ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,860, issued on March 25, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Efficient random string processing" was invented by Avishay Meron (Holon, Israel) and Tom Bar Yacov (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Character string analysis and classification can be useful in a variety of contexts, including examining web URLs to determine whether a URL indicates that a user is attempting to take a particular action on an electronic service platform. In some cases, however, URLs or other string data may have "noise" in them, such as random sub-strings, that prevents a string from being properly classified. Sometimes it may b...