Patent 11983220 was granted and assigned to Palo Alto Networks on May, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A URL and a categorization associated with the URL are received. The received URL comprises a hostname portion and a path portion. The hostname portion of the received URL comprises a plurality of segments separated by one or more delimiters. A key associated with the received URL is determined. An operation is performed on a database using the determined key. Examples of such operations include inserting the categorization into the database, changing a value associated with the key in the database, removing a key-value pair from the database, and querying the database.