METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ASSOCIATE A GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION INFORMATION WITH A NETWORK ADDRESS USING A COMBINATION OF AUTOMATED AND MANUAL PROCESSES

• US 20150295881A1
• Filed: 04/15/2015
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NeuStar IP Intelligence, Inc. (Neustar Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: NeuStar IP Intelligence, Inc. (Neustar Incorporated)
• Inventors: Anderson, Mark, Bansal, Ajay, Doctor, Brad, Hadjiyiannis, George, Herringshaw, Christopher, Muniz, Derald, Karplus, Eli
• Granted Patent: US 9,413,712 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/30 Types of network names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/10 of different types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/3015 Name registration, generation or assignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/35 involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A method and a system map a geographic location to a network address. At least one automated process is performed to identify a geographic location for the network address. A determination is made whether the automated process provided satisfactory geographic location information for the network address. If the automated process did not provided satisfactory geographic location information for the network address, then the network address is forwarded for manual resolution.

Claims

1. A method to map a geolocation to a network address, the method including:

performing at least one automated process to generated geolocation information for the network address;

determining whether the at least one automated process generated satisfactory geolocation information for the network address; and

if the automated process did not generate satisfactory geolocation information for the network address, then forwarding of the network address for manual resolution.