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Propagating attributes between network addresses

  • US 10,594,650 B2
  • Filed: 07/11/2014
  • Issued: 03/17/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of propagating network address to attribute associations between network addresses, comprising:

  • capturing network address observations, each network address observation captured by one or more source devices or network nodes in a network, the network address observations including observations of a first network address that indicate one or more first attributes, but having an absence of network address observations of a second network address that indicate the one or more first attributes, the one or more first attributes describing at least one of a location, time, intent or identity;

    associating the one or more first attributes with the first network address;

    determining, by a network address to attribute association system, the second network address is associated with the first network address based on one or more similarity criteria, the similarity criteria including at least one of association of the first network address and the second network address with an existing common second attribute or association of the first network address and the second network address with a common user identifier or device identifier;

    in response to the determining, propagating, by the network address to attribute association system executed on one or more electronic devices, the one or more first attributes from the first network address to the second network address, to form an association between the second network address and the one or more first attributes in the absence of network address observations of the second network address that indicate the one or more first attributes;

    storing, by the network address to attribute association system, the association between the second network address and the one or more first attributes in an updated profile maintained in the database, the database stored in a storage device of the one or more electronic devices; and

    providing the one or more first attributes to a service provider in response to the second network address.

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