Patent ID: 11888875
Assignee: MUSARUBRA US LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A computerized method for conducting cyberthreat analytics on a submitted object to determine whether the object is malicious, comprising:
assigning a first key to a subscriber to a cybersecurity system;
generating one or more virtual keys based, at least in part, on the first key, each virtual key of the one or more virtual keys is set with a usage restriction to permit use of the virtual key when provided from a network device having a network address residing within a selected network address range;
providing the one or more virtual keys to the subscriber for distribution, each virtual key of the one or more virtual keys to be included as part of a submission made by the subscriber;
monitoring a number of submissions received from the subscriber; and
determining compliance with subscription entitlements including a first threshold representing a number of active virtual keys available to the subscriber and a second threshold representing a number of submissions made by the subscriber during a prescribed time period.