Patent ID: 11936748
Assignee: CENSYS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 16, wherein to attempt to communicate with the at least some ports of the at least some network addresses using the plurality of different application-layer communication protocols, the program instructions further cause the one or more processors of the protocol inspection component of the continuous scanning engine to:
send one or more data probes to at least one of the ports at at least one of the network addresses;
receive data from the at least one network address in response to the sent data probe;
determine, using the received data from the at least one network address, a probabilistic match of successful communication against individual ones of the plurality of application-layer communication protocols; and
attempt to communicate with the at least one port at the at least one network address using one or more of the plurality of application-layer communication protocols that has the highest probabilistic match of successful communication.