ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,787, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PILLSANG Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Harmful URL detection method" was invented by Pill Sang Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki Heon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harmful URL detection method is proposed. The method includes requesting entry to a web page to which access is sought from a user terminal, comparing an access target URL corresponding to the entry-requested web page with a pre-stored whitelist, excluding the access target URL from a detection target when an identical domain exists as a result of the comparison wi...