ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,873, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for handling user requests for web services" was invented by Steven Hadler (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method detects and handles replay attacks using counters maintained for each of several different periods for various values of IP addresses and browser description attributes encountered."

The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/502,652.

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