Detecting Mobile Device Attributes

• US 20140181193A1
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Narasimhan, Mukund, Wei, Xiaoliang, Liang, Yingyi, Pai, Ita, Loh, Bo Huai Victor, Motiee, Sara, Yu, Haomin
• Granted Patent: US 10,075,554 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a webpage from a mobile-client system of a user, where the request includes an http-header, accessing information describing the user, determining the attributes of the mobile-client system based on the http-header and the information describing the user, and transmitting the webpage to the mobile-client system in response to the request, where the webpage has been customized based on the determined attributes of the mobile-client system.

Claims

1. A method comprising, by a computing device:

receiving a request for a webpage from a mobile-client system of a first user, the request comprising an http-header;

accessing a first information describing the first user;

determining one or more attributes of the mobile-client system based on the http-header and the first information; and

transmitting the webpage to the mobile-client system in response to the request, the webpage being customized based on the determined attributes of the mobile-client system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the http-header comprises a user-agent string describing one or more attributes of a browser client of the mobile-client system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a survey to the first user; and

receiving in response to the survey the first information describing the first user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the survey is transmitted to the mobile-client system of the first user.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the survey is transmitted to another client system of the first user.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the first information of the survey describes one or more attributes of the mobile-client system of the first user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the first information comprises receiving the first information from the mobile-client system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more attributes of the mobile-client system comprise one or more of programming language support, style-sheet language support, screen size, screen pixel density, keyboard type, location-services support, wireless communication support, image support, or video support.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing a social graph of an online social network, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, the nodes comprising;

a first-user node corresponding to the first user, the first user being associated with the online social network; and

a plurality of second nodes that each correspond to a second user associated with the online social network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first information describing the first user comprises a user profile of the online social network corresponding to the first user.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the first information describing the first user comprises information describing an employer of the first user, and wherein one or more second users with the same employer have mobile-client systems with one or more attributes.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein determining one or more attributes of the mobile-client system is further based on one or more user profiles of the online social network corresponding to one or more of the second users, respectively, each of the second users being within one degree of separation from the first user in the social graph.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more attributes of the mobile-client system is further based on a browsing history associated with the first user.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more attributes of the mobile-client system comprises:

calculating a score for each attribute based on the http-header and the first information; and

identifying each attribute having a score greater than a threshold score.

15. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

receive a request for a webpage from a mobile-client system of a first user, the request comprising an http-header;

access a first information describing the first user;

determine one or more attributes of the mobile-client system based on the http-header and the first information; and

transmit the webpage to the mobile-client system in response to the request, the webpage being customized based on the determined attributes of the mobile-client system.

16. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to;

receive a request for a webpage from a mobile-client system of a first user, the request comprising an http-header;

access a first information describing the first user;

determine one or more attributes of the mobile-client system based on the http-header and the first information; and

transmit the webpage to the mobile-client system in response to the request, the webpage being customized based on the determined attributes of the mobile-client system.