Human activity detection in computing device transmissions
US11012492B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 26, 2019 |
| Grant date | May 18, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 26, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2463/144
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computing system by defining a list of network access messages that are indicative of human use of computing devices, and extracting, from data traffic transmitted over a data network connecting a plurality of the computing devices to multiple Internet sites, respective transmissions from the computing devices to the Internet sites. A given transmission including one of the network access messages in the list is detected in the transmissions from a given computing device, and the given computing device is classified as being operated by a human in response to detecting the given transmission. Upon identifying suspicious content in the transmissions from a subset of the computing devices that includes the given computing device, any suspicious transmissions from the given computing device are ignored in response to the classification.
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