Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Differentiating user equipment types based on TCP signatures
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Application No.: US16657775Application Date: 2019-10-18
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Publication No.: US11146945B2Publication Date: 2021-10-12
- Inventor: Feng Li , Haim S. Ner , Parry Cornell Booker , John P. Demko
- Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Applicant Address: US VA Arlington
- Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Arlington
- Main IPC: G06F12/14
- IPC: G06F12/14 ; H04W8/22 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W28/06 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/08 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W12/033

Abstract:
Network devices may receive a Transport Control Protocol (TCP) segment from a user device. The TCP segment includes a TCP header and a payload, and the payload includes either a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) plaintext message or a Secure HTTP (HTTPS) encrypted message. The network devices may extract a TCP Synchronization (SYN) signature from the TCP header and determine whether the payload of the TCP segment includes a HTTP plaintext message or a HTTPS encrypted message. When the payload includes a HTTP plaintext message, the network devices may extract contents of a HTTP User-Agent field from the HTTP plaintext message, determine a device type identifier (ID) and a category ID based on the extracted contents, and update a plurality of device signatures based on the TCP signature, the device type ID, and the category ID.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210120400A1 DIFFERENTIATING USER EQUIPMENT TYPES BASED ON TCP SIGNATURES Public/Granted day:2021-04-22
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