ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,741, issued on July 22, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Bot prevention velocity framework" was invented by Jiawei Zhang (Pleasanton, Calif.), Neeraj Prasad (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jayakanthan Durairaj (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to a system, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program product for performing bot detection using a velocity framework. For example, embodiments include a policy decision engine that can receive requests from a source, wherein each of the requests comprise velocity data including one or more attributes. The policy decision engine...