SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INTERNET BOTS

Patent №

US 8,280,993

Granted

2012-10-02

Filed 2007

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11867096

Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to detect Internet bots in communication networks. Some embodiments of the invention allow an agent of a server to detect human interaction events on a client system. In other particular embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed below can be used to detect bots using server logs. In some other embodiments, the present invention involves sending an agent to a client system and polling the agent on whether human interaction events are detected on the client system.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.99
AI hardware0.50
Evolutionary computation0.34
Knowledge representation0.31
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 199190255

Assignors

AWADALLAH, AMR, THAMPY, SAJJIT

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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