ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,911, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Domain name processing systems and methods" was invented by Hung-Jen Chang (Fremont, Calif.), Ali Mesdaq (San Jose, Calif.), Gaurav Dalal (Fremont, Calif.) and Kevin Dedon (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A domain processing system is enhanced with a first-pass domain filter configured for loading character strings representing a pair of domains consisting of a seed domain and a candidate domain in a computer memory, computing a similarity score and a dynamic threshold for the pair of domains, determining whether the similarity score exceeds the ...