ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,565, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"URL risk analysis using heuristics and scanning" was invented by Rubin Azad (Milpitas, Calif.), Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.) and Narinder Paul (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include, responsive to starting a plurality of listener modules, receiving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a site on the Internet into a database; loading the URL; receiving artifacts based on the loading; using the plurality of listener modules to run rules based on the received artifacts; scoring the URL based on the rules and the received a...