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

Claim 16:
17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 16, wherein to send the initial packets to the plurality of ports of the plurality of network addresses of the network, the program instructions further cause the one or more processors of the continuous scanning engine with automatic protocol detection to:
obtain information regarding a plurality of port and transport-layer protocol combinations to scan;
generate, for individual ones of the port and transport-layer protocol combinations, a plurality of network addresses comprising at least a pseudorandom permutation of at least a portion of the network address space of the network; and
send probe packets, for individual ones of the port and transport-layer protocol combinations, the plurality of generated network addresses using the port and transport-layer protocol of the individual port and transport-layer protocol combination.