Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hidden line property of online content to inhibit bot activity
-
Application No.: US18309654Application Date: 2023-04-28
-
Publication No.: US12126607B2Publication Date: 2024-10-22
- Inventor: Dennis Ho
- Applicant: Shopify Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA Ottawa
- Assignee: Shopify Inc.
- Current Assignee: Shopify Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Ottawa
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/40

Abstract:
Disclosed are systems and methods that require/force bots to access and interact with webpages at a similar level to humans, by including an executable script that generates/updates a test value for a webpage. The client devices must perform certain processing and/or rendering of the webpage to call the computations necessary for generating the updated test value. The script must be executed as a function of processing and/or rendering the webpage. The script may be retrieved from the webserver as a function of processing and/or rendering the webpage. When the browser executes this script, the browser generates the updated test value. At some point, the client device submits a request for certain process with the updated test value. The server compares the inbound test value from the client device against an initial/previously received test value or an expected test value to determine whether the browser is being operated by a human.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230262043A1 HIDDEN LINE PROPERTY OF ONLINE CONTENT TO INHIBIT BOT ACTIVITY Public/Granted day:2023-08-17
Information query