Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted patent # 7,756,987 to Microsoft.
The patent is for “Cybersquatter Patrol” a system developed by Microsoft for generating lists of typo-squatted and cyber-squatted domain names, determining ownership and revenue source for these domains, and blocking both cybersquatted domains and ads run on these domains.
A PDF of this new patent can be found here courtesy of domainnamewire.com – Patent # 7,756,987