Patent ID: 9369438
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for controlling a transfer of data between data communications networks, the apparatus comprising: a data store; a first computer network interface for accessing a first data communications network and a first user interface for receiving a first data transfer request to download data from a data source linked to the first data communications network to the data store, in a first computing environment; a second computer network interface for accessing a second data communications network and a second user interface for receiving a second data transfer request to transfer downloaded data from the data store to a recipient device linked to the second data communications network, in a second computing environment isolated from the first computing environment; and data transfer control processor comprising hardware with access to the first and second computing environments for controlling downloads and transfers of data according to the first and second requests, further comprising a supervisory processor configured to determine that at least the second request originates from a human user and, having so determined, to enable a data transfer according to the second request, the supervisory processor determining that the first or second request is by other than a human user when the first or second request is found to be statistically inconsistent, on the basis of one or more metrics derived from historical data characterizing data transfer requests by a respective user, with data characterizing human behavior, said one or more metrics being computed from data characterizing data transfer activity by the apparatus over a given time period.