US Patent Issued to Yahoo Assets on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for analyzing network data to identify human and non-human users in network communications" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,064, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for analyzing network data to identify human and non-human users in network communications" was invented by Donald J. Mcqueen (Leesburg, Va.), Lachlan A. Maxwell (Ashburn, Va.) and William C. Wakefield III (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying human users on a network. One method includes receiving network data comprising data transmitted over a network over predetermined time period, the network data comprising a plurality of usernames and a plurality of events, wherein each of the plurality...