US 12,088,623 B2
Edge network-based account protection service
John Summers, Cambridge, MA (US); Robert Polansky, Cambridge, MA (US); Darryl Nicholson, Portland, OR (US); and Scott Markwell, Beaverton, OR (US)
Assigned to Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/103,566.
Application 18/103,566 is a continuation of application No. 17/133,966, filed on Dec. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,570,203, issued on Jan. 31, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/955,633, filed on Dec. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171285 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/1441 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0892 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) apparatus associated with an edge server, the edge server associated with an overlay network and configured to provide a service on behalf of an origin machine-supported application endpoint, comprising:
a set of hardware processors;
computer memory associated with the set of hardware processors and holding computer program code, the program code configured as:
an account protection service responsive to receipt of a first request from the edge server, the first request having been proxied to the account protection service via the edge server, the first request including first data collected as a result of a first script being executed on the client, the account protection service responding to the first request returning to the edge server a user risk score; and
a bot detection service that is responsive to receipt of a second request from the edge server, the second request having been proxied to the bot detection service via the edge server, the second request including second data collected as a result of a second script being executed on the client, the bot detection service responding to the second request returning to the edge server a bot detection score indicating a likelihood that the client is a bot.