US 12,489,787 B1
Email bot click detection
Joel Bao-Lan Tran, Canton de Hatley (CA); Isabelle Thore, Montreal (CA); Nirmal Pothuraj, Saint-Philippe (CA); Marc Dorais, Laval (CA); Mihai David, La Prairie (CA); Mackenzie Trenholm, Montreal (CA); Ali Mahram Hassan Zada, Mirabel (CA); Bianca Matei, Brossard (CA); Martin Parent, St-Joseph-du-Lac (CA); and Fuman Jin, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to SAP SE, Walldorf (DE)
Filed by SAP SE, Walldorf (DE)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/766,362.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); H04L 51/07 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/1491 (2013.01) [G06F 11/3438 (2013.01); H04L 51/07 (2022.05); H04L 2463/144 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. A method comprising:
accessing an email containing renderable content in a body of the email;
inserting a hidden honeypot into the email, the hidden honeypot being a link that is not visible to a viewer when the email is rendered on a display, being a link to a predetermined web address;
receiving an indication, from a first source address, that a first click on a first link has occurred;
determining that the first link has a corresponding web address that matches the predetermined web address; and
in response to the determining, labeling the indication, as well as other indications from the first source address, as being initiated by a bot instead of a human.