Patent ID: 11916946
Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A system for identifying malicious traffic visitors associated with a website, the system including:
a data storage device that stores instructions for identifying malicious traffic associated with a website; and
a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method including:
receiving website traffic data comprising a plurality of variables associated with one or more actions of a plurality of visitors;
determining a total number of occurrences associated with at least two variables, of the plurality of variables of the received website traffic data;
generating a plurality of combinations of the at least two variables;
clustering each of the plurality of combinations of the at least two variables into groups; and
determining, based on the clustering of the plurality of combinations of the at least two variables into groups, whether plurality of visitors are malicious visitors associated with the website.