ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,383, issued on April 14, was assigned to ThreatSTOP Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Normalization and extraction of log data" was invented by Francis Turner (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extracting data from traffic logs using regular expressions. A traffic log is received from a network device. A characterization of an extraction of data from the traffic log is determined. The traffic log is parsed by applying a first regular expression to the traffic log according to the characterization of the extraction of data from the traffic log to generate parsed data. Data is extracted from the traffic log by applying a second ...