US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 17 for "Detecting and protecting claimable non-existent domains" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,927, issued on March 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting and protecting claimable non-existent domains" was invented by Ruian Duan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhanhao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Janos Szurdi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting and protecting claimable non-existent domains are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for detecting and protecting claimable non-existent domains includes monitoring network activity using a network security device, detecting that a session is querying a cla...