Fraud prevention via distinctive URL display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10230755-B2
Application number	US-201514666258-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2015
Priority date	Dec 11, 2003
Publication date	Mar 12, 2019
Grant date	Mar 12, 2019

Abstract

In some embodiments, techniques for displaying a URL comprise receiving a URL; normalizing the URL, wherein normalizing the URL includes standardizing an encoding of a character contained in the URL; determining a first element of the URL, wherein the first element of the URL includes a domain; determining a second element of the URL; displaying the URL, wherein displaying the URL includes emphasizing the first element of the URL, and wherein emphasizing the first element of the URL includes displaying the first element of the URL using a first font attribute; and wherein displaying the URL includes displaying a first portion of the second element of the URL using a second font attribute and eliding a second portion of the second element of the URL; and responsive to an interaction with a user interface element, providing a view of the URL in its entirety.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for displaying a URL, comprising:
receiving a URL;
normalizing the URL, wherein normalizing the URL includes standardizing an encoding of a character, wherein the character is contained in the URL;
determining a first element of the URL, wherein the first element of the URL includes a domain;
determining a second element of the URL, wherein the second element of the URL includes a first portion of the second element of the URL and a second portion of the second element of the URL;
determining the first element of the URL is more important than the first portion of the second element of the URL according to a first preset criterion, and determining the first portion of the second element of the URL is more important than the second portion of the second element of the URL according to a second preset criterion;
displaying the URL, wherein displaying the URL includes emphasizing the first element of the URL, and wherein emphasizing the first element of the URL includes displaying the first element of the URL using a first font attribute; and wherein displaying the URL includes displaying the first portion of the second element of the URL using a second font attribute and eliding the second portion of the second element of the URL;
providing a user interface element; and
responsive to an interaction with the user interface element, providing a view of the URL in its entirety.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein eliding the second portion of the second element of the URL includes displaying an indication that information is not being displayed.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the indication that information is not being displayed is an ellipsis.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first element of the URL includes a subdomain.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first font attribute includes bold.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first font attribute includes a first color, and wherein the second font attribute includes a second color.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the URL occurs in an address bar of a browser.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising parsing the URL to determine constituent components of the URL, wherein the first element of the URL is a first constituent component of the URL and wherein the second element of the URL is a second constituent component of the URL.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising protecting a URL display from being overwritten.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that the URL is too long to be displayed in a display space.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second element includes a path.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second element includes an argument.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first portion of the second element is associated with leading characters of the second element and wherein the second portion of the second element is associated with trailing characters of the second element.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a third element of the URL, wherein the third element of the URL is associated with a scheme specifier, and eliding the third element of the URL.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein standardizing the encoding of the character includes converting the character to a decoded equivalent.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the encoding is of the form “%” followed by a hexadecimal value, and wherein converting the character to its decoded equivalent includes generating a character corresponding to a numeric code, wherein the numeric code corresponds to the hexadecimal value.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein standardizing the encoding of the character includes encoding a character.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein encoding the character uses an encoding of the form “% xx” followed by a hexadecimal value, wherein the hexadecimal value corresponds to a numeric code corresponding to the character.

19. A system for displaying a URL, comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive a URL;
normalize the URL, wherein normalizing the URL includes standardizing an encoding of a character, wherein the character is contained in the URL;
determine a first element of the URL, wherein the first element of the URL includes a domain;
determine a second element of the URL, wherein the second element of the URL includes a first portion of the second element of the URL and a second portion of the second element of the URL;
determine the first element of the URL is more important than the first portion of the second element of the URL according to a first preset criterion, and determining the first portion of the second element of the URL is more important than the second portion of the second element of the URL according to a second preset criterion;
display the URL, wherein displaying the URL includes emphasizing the first element of the URL, and wherein emphasizing the first element of the URL includes displaying the first element of the URL using a first font attribute; and wherein displaying the URL includes displaying the first portion of the second element of the URL using a second font attribute and eliding the second portion of the second element of the URL;
provide a user interface element; and
responsive to an interaction with the user interface element, provide a view of the URL in its entirety; and
a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory provides instructions to the processor.

20. A computer program product for displaying a URL, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:
receiving a URL;
normalizing the URL, wherein normalizing the URL includes standardizing an encoding of a character, wherein the character is contained in the URL;
determining a first element of the URL, wherein the first element of the URL includes a domain;
determining a second element of the URL, wherein the second element of the URL includes a first portion of the second element of the URL and a second portion of the second element of the URL;
determining the first element of the URL is more important than the first portion of the second element of the URL according to a first preset criterion, and determining the first portion of the second element of the URL is more important than the second portion of the second element of the URL according to a second preset criterion;
displaying the URL, wherein displaying the URL includes emphasizing the first element of the URL, and wherein emphasizing the first element of the URL includes displaying the first element of the URL using a first font attribute; and wherein displaying the URL includes displaying the first portion of the second element of the URL using a second font attribute and eliding the second portion of the second element of the URL;
providing a user interface element; and
responsive to an interaction with the user interface element, providing a view of the URL in its entirety.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Emigh Aaron
• Roskind James

Classifications

• G06F21/50

  Monitoring users, programs or devices to maintain the integrity of platforms, e.g. of processors, firmware or operating systems · CPC title

• H04L63/20

  for managing network security; network security policies in general (filtering policies H04L63/0227) · CPC title

• H04L63/1441 Primary

  Countermeasures against malicious traffic (countermeasures against attacks on cryptographic mechanisms H04L9/002) · CPC title

• H04N19/895

  in combination with error concealment · CPC title

• H04L63/1483

  service impersonation, e.g. phishing, pharming or web spoofing (detection of rogue wireless access points H04W12/12) · CPC title