US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Combining multiple detection algorithms into a confidence score for bot detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,169, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Combining multiple detection algorithms into a confidence score for bot detection" was invented by Zixu Wang (Saratoga, Calif.), Tyson J. Thomas (San Francisco) and Sreenath Kurupati (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bot detection service associated with an overlay network operates to score traffic as a probability of being a bot, as opposed to returning a binary classification (i.e., bot or human). According to the approach herein, scoring is determined through probability estimates, wherein a score (the probability) is based on co...