Patent ID: 11916952
Assignee: SECURITYSCORECARD, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. An apparatus that maps Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to an entity, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and containing program code configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
receiving, by the one or more processors, one or more domain names associated with the entity;
identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more variations of the one or more domain names;
identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more IP addresses pointed to by the identified one or more variations of the one or more domain names; and
mapping at least one of the identified one or more IP addresses to the entity based on a reliability weighting of the one or more variations of the one or more domain names, wherein the reliability weighting is determined by:

assigning a larger weight to an IP address of the identified one or more IP addresses that relates to a first number of the one or more variations of the one or more domain names; and
assigning a smaller weight to an IP address of the identified one or more IP addresses that relates to a second number of the one or more variations of the one or more domain names,
where the first number is larger than the second number.