US Patent Issued to Sophos on July 14 for "Web content filtering" (Hungarian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,927, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Web content filtering" was invented by Tamas Voros (Budapest, Hungary), Konstantin Berlin (Potomac, Md.) and Sean Paul Bergeron (Budaors, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large language model (LLM) is trained to classify Uniform Resource Locator (URL) requests using a data that has been labeled with a domain-to-category database of corresponding, suitable categories for web content. This model can then be distilled using a student model trained to reproduce the behavior of the tuned large language model. The resulting student model can be deployed...