US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Oct. 20 for "Machine learning uniform resource locator (URL) classifier" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,722, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Machine learning uniform resource locator (URL) classifier" was invented by Steve Rozzo (San Francisco) and Sarah Solieman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to URL classification. A computing platform may receive, from an enterprise user device, a request to evaluate a URL. The computing platform may execute one or more feature enrichment actions on the URL to identify one or more data points corresponding to the URL, which may include crawling the URL to extract metadata for the URL. The computing platform may i...