Patent Document ID: 20150229662
Application ID: 13730191
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying a threatening network, the method comprising: providing a network movement before/after algorithm that provides a graphical plot of changes in networks' communications activity from before to after a key event occurs, so that an analyst is able to identify anomalous behavior; providing a network progression algorithm that provides a graphical plot to analyze behavior in small increments of time without specification or emphasis upon a particular event, so that the analyst is able to see a trend in behavioral changes and identify events that may be of interest; providing a statistical network anomaly ranking algorithm that provides as output a ranked list of the networks; and providing an anomaly trend graphs algorithm that analyzes and visualizes the networks' anomaly scores over time, so that the analyst is able to see which networks are consistently suspicious, which networks accumulate more suspiciousness in response to an event, and which networks are trending toward more suspiciousness.