US 11,736,362 B2
Internet address structure analysis, and applications thereof
Pawel J. Foremski, Gliwice (PL); Arthur W. Berger, Cambridge, MA (US); and David J. Plonka, Somerville, MA (US)
Assigned to Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/875,494.
Application 17/875,494 is a continuation of application No. 17/195,281, filed on Mar. 8, 2021, granted, now 11,405,286, issued on Aug. 2, 2022.
Application 17/195,281 is a continuation of application No. 15/618,303, filed on Jun. 9, 2017, granted, now 10,944,639, issued on Mar. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/347,633, filed on Jun. 9, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368603 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 41/14 (2022.01); H04L 41/142 (2022.01); H04L 41/16 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.01); H04L 61/5092 (2022.01); H04L 101/659 (2022.01); H04L 101/686 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/145 (2013.01) [H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 41/16 (2013.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04L 61/5092 (2022.05); H04L 2101/659 (2022.05); H04L 2101/686 (2022.05)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a hardware processor;
computer memory storing computer program code, the code comprising program code executed by the hardware processor and configured to:
classify Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and prefixes (i) temporally, according to their instances of activity, to discern which addresses are considered stable, and (ii) spatially, wherein prefixes are characterized structurally, and then IP addresses therein are classified according to densities of contained non-overlapping sub-prefixes; and
perform a computer network management task using the classified IP addresses and prefixes.