Patent ID: 11949697
Assignee: PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon program instructions to:
scan the Internet for publicly accessible communication ports with probes having an initial payload, wherein the instructions to scan the Internet comprise instructions to scan the Internet external to one or more networks corresponding to the publicly accessible communication ports;
for each device that communicates a response,
determine whether the response indicates a network address active on a port and a service associated with the port; and
based on a determination that the response indicates a network address active on a port and a service associated with the port, determine a set of one or more follow-up payloads based, at least in part, on the response and deliver to the device associated with the network address the set of one or more follow-up payloads to interact with the device and request data from the device; and

update a database based, at least in part, on the responses to the probes having the initial payload and responses to the follow-up payloads.