SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES

Patent №

US 11,240,327

Granted

2022-02-01

Filed 2020

Owner

AOL ADVERTISING INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17024256

Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for which requests were received over a predetermined time period from a number of Internet-enabled devices below a threshold number of devices, identifying each possible pair of devices from which requests were received; and for each possible pair of devices, calculating a probability that the pair of devices are owned or operated by a common user.

PlanningH04L 67/535H04W 4/21

AI classification

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Knowledge representation0.46
AI hardware0.08
Vision0.03
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

AOL ADVERTISING INC.

assignment · 540730693

VERIZON MEDIA INC.

namechg · 541010791

OATH (AMERICAS) INC.

namechg · 541010871

Assignors

MILLER, NICHOLAS P., EDWARDS, SIMON D., MILFORD, ALAN J., KIM, DENYS P., SCHELFHOUT, BART W.R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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