ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,298, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).
"System and method for fraud identification" was invented by Donald J McQueen (Leesburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, first-tier Internet Protocol (IP) address reputation scores, including a first first-tier IP address reputation score associated with a first first-tier IP address group and a second first-tier IP address reputation score associated with a second first-tier IP address group, may be determined based upon a plurality of events. A second-tier IP address reputation score associated with a second-tier IP address group may be determine...