Patent ID: 11962618
Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A method for protection against theft of user credentials comprising:
identifying, by a computer system, a company name included in a received email;
identifying, by the computer system, a link in the received email;
extracting, by the computer system, a domain name from the identified link;
searching, by the computer system, a linkmap for an existing record associated with the identified company name, wherein the linkmap comprises a collection of records, the records relating names of companies to trusted domain names;
determining, by the computer system, if the extracted domain name matches a trusted domain name of the existing record; and
creating a new record, if the search of the linkmap fails to provide the existing record, wherein the new record comprises an identification of a recipient of the email, the identified company name, the extracted domain name, and a timestamp.