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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2007
Applicants:

Kannan Achan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Eliot Gillum, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yinglian Xie, Cupertino, CA (US);

Fang Yu, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kannan Achan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Eliot Gillum, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yinglian Xie, Cupertino, CA (US);

Fang Yu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 61/35 (2013.01); H04L 29/12783 (2013.01);
Abstract

Dynamic IP addresses may be automatically identified and their dynamics patterns may be analyzed. Multi-user IP address blocks are determined as candidates for further analysis. An entropy score is determined for each IP address in every candidate block to distinguish between a dynamic IP and a static IP shared by multiple users. IP addresses with high entropy scores are grouped, and then analyzed, and may be used in various applications, such as spam filtering.


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