ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,294, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).
"Detection of suspicious uniform resource locators" was invented by Chih-Yu Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Chin Ho (Taipei, Taiwan) and Mong-Ting Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspicious Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a resource on the public Internet is detected by searching a part of the URL for a candidate substring, which is the longest possible substring that is in accordance with a Base64 encoding scheme. The candidate substring is converted to a candidate binary data in accordance with the Base64 encoding scheme. The candidate binary data is...