ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,978, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Clique graph mining for host navigation safety" was invented by Avinash Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Shanu Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Sai Krishna Mendu (Hyderabad, India) and Mayana Wanderley Pereira (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the technology described herein programmatically expand the capabilities of computing systems to allow for the determination of a host authority value indicative of a reliability of a particular host identified as a node in a Host Navigation Graph (HNG). A classifier or other n...