Anne L Morrow

US Patent:

20210075872, Mar 11, 2021

Filed:

Jun 24, 2019

Appl. No.:

17/051657

Inventors:

- Washington DC, US
Anne E. MORROW - Washington DC, US
Kristopher E. HERRING - Washington DC, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
H04W 4/029

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprising an analytic server, which builds a pipeline of five classifiers to validate whether an electronic device is operated by a human user. The server monitors wireless signals detected by different electronic devices by triggering a signal scanning function on the electronic devices. Based on the wireless signals reported by different electronic devices, the server generates a set of signal clusters. The server applies the pipeline of five classifiers on the wireless signals detected by an electronic device by exploiting the signal clusters included in the wireless signals. If any of the classifiers determines the electronic device is a legitimate human device, the server validates the electronic device; otherwise, the server applies the next classifier. If after a number of classifiers, none of the classifiers validates the device usage, the server determines that the device is not operated by a human.