US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 8 for "Identifying malware devices with domain name system (DNS) queries" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,533, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Identifying malware devices with domain name system (DNS) queries" was invented by Yiu Leung Lee (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples described herein are directed to identifying a particular computing device, such as a computing device having malware. A DNS query may be received with a token identifying an originating computing device. The DNS query may be compared to a list of domain names associated with particular characteristics, such as having malware. The token may be used to identify the originating computing dev...