ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,361, issued on May 20, was assigned to Traceable Inc (San Francisco).
"Detecting threats based on API service business logic abuse" was invented by Ravindra Guntar (Hyderabad, India) and Ranaji Krishna (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Behaviors in the form of API strings for each of a plurality of users are determined for each user interacting with an API for a particular time. The behavior strings are converted to a numerical format, and clustering algorithms are applied to the numerical format data. The type of cluster is then determined for each cluster. Types of clusters can include an attacking user, bots, speed ...