Patent Document ID: 8005782
Application ID: 11837476

Base Claim:
1. A method of classifying a domain name, comprising: identifying a dictionary set of character-based n-grams, wherein each character-based n-gram in the dictionary set of character-based n-grams is associated with a pre-established first classification probability value and a pre-established second classification probability value, wherein the pre-established first classification probability value is indicative of whether a corresponding character-based n-gram of the dictionary set is likely to be in a first domain name category, wherein the pre-established second classification probability value is indicative of whether the corresponding character-based n-gram of the dictionary set is likely to be in a second domain name category; identifying a domain set of character-based n-grams corresponding to a domain name string, the domain name string being associated with a domain name; classifying the domain name in the first domain name category in response to at least one of the pre-established first classification probability value of a first character-based n-gram in the dictionary set corresponding to a first selected character-based n-gram in the domain set or the pre-established first classification probability value of a second character-based n-gram in the dictionary set corresponding to a second selected character-based n-gram in the domain set being higher than a first classification predetermined threshold; and classifying the domain name in the second domain name category in response to at least one of the pre-established second classification probability value of the first character-based n-gram in the dictionary set corresponding to the first selected character-based n-gram in the domain set or the pre-established second classification probability value of the second character-based n-gram in the dictionary set corresponding to the second selected character-based n-gram in the domain set being higher than a second classification predetermined threshold.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the character-based n-grams are bigrams, trigrams, or four-grams.