US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Edge network-based account protection service" (Massachusetts, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,919, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Edge network-based account protection service" was invented by John Summers (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert Polansky (Cambridge, Mass.), Darryl Nicholson (Portland, Ore.) and Scott Markwell (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An account protection service to prevent user login or other protected endpoint request abuse. In one embodiment, the service collects user recognition data, preferably for each login attempt (e.g. data about the connection, session, and other relevant context), and it constructs a true user profile for each such user ov...