US Patent Issued to PROOFPOINT on March 4 for "Systems and methods for prioritizing URL review for sandboxing based on accelerated velocities of URL features in network traffic" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,618, issued on March 4, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for prioritizing URL review for sandboxing based on accelerated velocities of URL features in network traffic" was invented by Gregory Lee Wittel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Edward Pavlov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A URL velocity monitor is integrated with a message-hold decision maker of an electronic mail processing system that processes electronic messages for a protected computer network. The URL velocity monitor receives or obtains a URL, decomposes the URL into URL features based on logical boundaries, and det...