ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,550, issued on March 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Detecting compromised cloud users" was invented by Eran Goldstein (Herzliya, Israel), Idan Hen (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Shalom Shay Shavit (Ashkelon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compromised user accounts are identified by detecting anomalous cloud activities. Cloud activities are determined to be anomalous by comparing the behavior of a particular user with the previous behavior of that user as well as the previous behavior of other, related users. In some configurations, the related users are organized into one or more hierarchies...