Patent application EP20162450A (EP), filed 2020-03-11
Publication number: EP3716584A1
Title: DATA ENRICHMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ABBREVIATED DOMAIN NAME CLASSIFICATION
Abstract: To find enriching contextual information for an abbreviated domain name, a data enrichment engine can comb (105, 110) through web content source code corresponding to the abbreviated domain name. From textual content in the web content source code, the data enrichment engine can identify (115) words with initial characters that match characters of the abbreviated domain name to thereby establish (125) a relationship there-between. This relationship can facilitate more accurate and efficient domain name classification. The data enrichment engine can query (130) a WHOIS server to find out if candidate domains having initial characters that match the characters of the abbreviated domain name are registered to the same entity. If so, keywords can be extracted from the candidate domains and used to find more relevant domains for domain risk analysis and detection. Candidate domains determined by the data enrichment engine can be provided to a downstream computing facility such as a domain filter.
IPC codes: G06F  40/   274            A I
H04L  29/    06            A I
H04L  29/    12            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: A computer-implemented method, comprising:
number: 2
text: The method according to claim 1, wherein the characters of the abbreviated domain name comprise a letter, a number, a hyphen, or a combination thereof in one or more languages.
number: 3
text: The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the determining (115) the set of words comprises capturing a number of consecutive words from the textual content and comparing an initial character from each of the number of consecutive words with the characters of the abbreviated domain name.
number: 4
text: The method according to claim 3, wherein the determining (115) the set of words further comprises removing consecutive words from the textual content that have initial characters arranged in an order that is different from that of the characters of the abbreviated domain name.
number: 5
text: The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the set of words with the initial characters that match the characters of the abbreviated domain name is selected, based on a frequency of occurrences in the textual content, from sets of words having same initial characters that match the characters of the abbreviated domain name.
number: 6
text: The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein, responsive to the candidate domain name of the set of words and the abbreviated domain name being owned by same entity, extracting keywords from the candidate domain name and querying the WHOIS server (450) with the keywords extracted from the candidate domain name to find new domain names.
number: 7
text: The method according to any of the preceding claims, further comprising:
number: 8
text: A data processing system comprising a processor (801) configured to perform the method of any of the preceding claims.
number: 9
text: A computer program product comprising instructions which, when the program is executed by a computer (410, 800), cause the computer (410, 800) to carry out the method of any of claims 1-7.
number: 10
text: A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer (410, 800), cause the computer (410, 800) to carry out the method of any of claims 1-7.
Office action: search_report, dated 2020-09-30
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Final disposition: pending (2020-09-30)