Patent ID: 9148445
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for discovering whether a web page or web page content has been acquired inappropriately or illegitimately from a legitimate web page by one or more individuals attempting to copy, clone, spoof, or otherwise replicate the legitimate web page or web page content, or to deceive users into visiting the illegitimate, inauthentic or otherwise fraudulent web page resembling the legitimate web page or the legitimate web page content, comprising: installing a portion of code into source code of the legitimate web page, wherein the portion of code sends at least one query to request an attribute of the legitimate web page, including at least one of an IP address, URL or domain name belonging to the legitimate web page; causing a processor to compare the legitimate web page attribute to a web page attribute of the web page issuing the at least one query; determining if the attribute from the legitimate web page matches the attribute from the querying web page; and causing an action to occur based on an outcome of the determination.