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

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for identifying malicious visitors associated with a website, the 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 the plurality of visitors are malicious visitors associated with the website.