ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,845, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Bot detection with page fingerprints and behavioral analysis" was invented by Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved bot detection systems and methods are disclosed. A page fingerprinting algorithm can be used to categorize web pages. The categorization of web pages enables improved insights in profiling the way a human interacts with a website as opposed to a bot. Learning the patterns of humans and bots for a given web page category (or navigation across categories), a heuristic ruleset and/or...