US Patent Issued to SAP America on Jan. 13 for "Network intrusion detection in a large-scale authenication scenario" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,271, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAP America Inc. (Newtown Square, Pa.).

"Network intrusion detection in a large-scale authenication scenario" was invented by Nick Pendar (San Ramon, Calif.), Vahid Bisadi (Danville, Calif.) and Sanjeev Chakravarty (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Past login activity is used to train a machine learning model and pre-compute network intrusion risk profiles. Subsequent login attempts can be evaluated with the pre-computed network intrusion risk profiles. If the profile shows sufficient intrusion risk, actions can be taken to avoid intrusion, such as requiring further authentication ...