US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 11 for "Detection of squatting domains with intentionally substituted keywords" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,951, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detection of squatting domains with intentionally substituted keywords" was invented by Zhanhao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Fan Fei (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting domain squatting. The method includes (i) detect a domain squatting based at least in part on determining one or more substituted keywords based on input domains and seed domains to generate a plurality of potential squatting domains; and (ii) perfor...