ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,772, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Detecting fraudulent user flows" was invented by Shimon Benusovich (Rishon le Zion, Israel), Andrey Finkelshtein (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Noga Agmon (Givat Shmuel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for detecting fraudulent user flows associated with a website. User flow data, representing an interaction by a user with content of a website, is received and converted to a vector representation that represents a time series transition from one portion of website content to another of the website. The vector representa...