US Patent Issued to Zscaler on March 3 for "Systems and methods for structural similarity based hashing" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,096, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for structural similarity based hashing" was invented by Sandeep Paul (Bangalore, India) and Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for structural similarity based hash for sample identification and detection include, monitoring traffic associated with a cloud-based system; identifying a unique file within the traffic and computing a Structural Similarity Hash (SSHash) for the file, wherein the SSHash is based on auxiliary information and a complexity of the file; identifying one or more similar fi...