Patent ID: 9521157
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device and via a user interface, a string of text comprising a de-fanged uniform resource locator, wherein the de-fanged uniform resource locator includes a pair of brackets surrounding a dot (.); converting, by the computing device, the de-fanged uniform resource locator into a resolvable uniform resource locator, wherein converting the de-fanged uniform resource locator into the resolvable uniform resource locator includes removing the pair of brackets; retrieving, by the computing device, data from a network location identified by the resolvable uniform resource locator, wherein retrieving the data comprises instantiating a headless browser and rendering the data via the headless browser, resulting in rendered data; categorizing, by the computing device, based on the rendered data, the location as a malicious location; generating, by the computing device, one or more notifications based on the categorizing; and transmitting, by the computing device, the one or more notifications to another device to update a record stored at the another device and associated with the network location to include information indicating that the network location is malicious.