ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,120, issued on May 20, was assigned to Infoblox Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Detecting homographs of domain names" was invented by Femi Olumofin (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for detecting homographs of domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for detecting homographs of domain names includes receiving a DNS data stream, wherein the DNS data stream includes a DNS query and a DNS response for resolution of the DNS query; applying a homograph detector for each domain in the DNS data stream; and detecting a homograph of a domain name in the...