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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2007
Adam Winkler, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tobias Speckbacher, Villanova, PA (US);
Gary Conner, San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Winkler, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tobias Speckbacher, Villanova, PA (US);
Gary Conner, San Jose, CA (US);
Quova, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for evaluating and selecting traceroutes to be used in determining the geographic location of a network block. A particular embodiment of the system includes a set of traceroute feature vector extractors, each traceroute feature vector extractor being associated with at least one of a plurality of traceroutes, each traceroute feature vector extractor being configured to generate a traceroute feature vector for at least one of the plurality of traceroutes; a set of traceroute classifiers each coupled to at least one of the traceroute feature vector extractors, each traceroute classifier being associated with at least one of the plurality of traceroutes, each traceroute classifier being configured to generate at least one traceroute classification and/or regression based on at least one of the traceroute feature vectors; and a traceroute geolocation determining engine.