Patent ID: 9268940
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for assessing Internet addresses, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying an Internet Protocol address; identifying a plurality of files downloaded from the Internet Protocol address via a plurality of Internet sites that resolve to the Internet Protocol address; generating an aggregation of security assessments that relates to the Internet Protocol address and that is based at least in part on a security assessment of each of the plurality of files, wherein generating the aggregation comprises determining a distribution identifying how the security assessments are distributed across the plurality of Internet sites; determining a trustworthiness of the Internet Protocol address based at least in part on the aggregation of security assessments by attributing the aggregation of security assessments to the trustworthiness of the Internet Protocol address as opposed to attributing the security assessments to the plurality of Internet sites by: facilitating a security action based at least in part on the trustworthiness of the Internet Protocol address.