US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 24 for "Automated clustering of sessions of unstructured traffic" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,048, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated clustering of sessions of unstructured traffic" was invented by Stefan Achleitner (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural language processor extracts features from batches of unstructured traffic. A feature weighted distance engine computes a distance matrix between pairs of feature vectors for sessions of unstructured traffic using a weight vector that assigns importance to relative placement of features in feature vectors. The distance function used to compute the distance matrix with the weight vector is conducive to ...