US Patent 10129288 Using IP address data to detect malicious activities

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting malicious activities. One of the methods includes obtaining a collection of user event logs or receiving user events through real-time feeds; using data from the user event logs/feeds to determine IP address properties for individual IP addresses and IP address ranges; and for each incoming event, updating the IP address properties for the corresponding IP address and IP prefix properties.