US Patent Issued to ExtraHop Networks on March 24 for "Detecting abnormal data access based on data similarity" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,535, issued on March 24, was assigned to ExtraHop Networks Inc. (Seattle).

"Detecting abnormal data access based on data similarity" was invented by Xue Jun Wu (Seattle), Swagat Dasgupta (Kirkland, Wash.) and Matthew Alexander Schurr (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers. Activity associated with a document in a network may be determined based on the network traffic. A profile may be generated based on a summarization of the activity associated with the document such that the profile may be stored in a data store that stores other p...