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METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE DEVICES BELONGING TO THE SAME GROUP

  • US 20160323239A1
  • Filed: 04/30/2015
  • Published: 11/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for identifying multiple electronic devices belonging to a same group, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from network accessing applications of a plurality of electronic devices, internet protocol (IP) trajectory information about the network accessing applications via a network,wherein the IP trajectory information includesa user identifier,a list of IP addresses associated with each of the network accessing applications, andtimestamps specifying times each of the network accessing applications accesses the network;

    identifying commercial IP addresses among the list of IP addresses;

    removing the commercial IP addresses from the list of IP addresses to produce revised IP trajectory information;

    analyzing the revised IP trajectory information to retrieve a most commonly used IP address for each of the network accessing applications during a certain period; and

    determining that different network accessing applications belong to the same group if the most commonly used IP addresses for the different network accessing applications are the same.

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