SMART LOCATION DETERMINATION

• US 20170318100A1
• Filed: 11/04/2014
• Published: 11/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Levi, Elad, Mizrahi, Avigad, Bar Zik, Ran
• Granted Patent: US 10,091,311 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• 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 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system for smart location determination includes a session information accessor to access session information that details a session of a user system as it connects to a web technology server. The system includes a knowledge base that includes known common session information of multiple geographic locations. The system includes a session information comparator to compare the accessed session information to the knowledge base, and based on the comparison, determine a geographic location of the user system or verify an alleged geographic location.

Claims

1. A system for smart location determination, the system comprising:

a session information accessor to access session information that details a session of a user system as it connects to a web technology server;

a knowledge base that includes known common session information of multiple geographic locations; and

a session information comparator to compare the accessed session information to the knowledge base, and based on the comparison, determine a geographic location of the user system or verify an alleged geographic location.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the determination of the geographic location includes determining which of the multiple geographic locations has associated common session information in the knowledge base that best matches the accessed session information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the session information used for the comparison does not include an IP (internet protocol) address.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a similarity determinor to, if the session information comparator determines a geographic location, determine a similarity rating between common session information of the geographic location and the accessed session information.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a similarity determinor to, if the session information comparator verifies an alleged geographic location, determine a similarity rating between common session information of the alleged geographic location and the accessed session information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the accessed session information includes multiple session parameters, and wherein the accessed session information includes an importance rating for at least one of the multiple session parameters.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the comparison of the accessed session information to the knowledge base includes considering the importance rating for at least one of the multiple session parameters.

8. A method for smart location determination, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a user system to access a web technology;

extracting session information from the request that details a session of the user system as it sends the request;

sending the session information to a smart system to compare the session information to known common session information of multiple geographic locations; and

receiving, from the smart system, based on the comparison, a geographic location of the user system or a verification of an alleged geographic location.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the session information does not include an IP (internet protocol) address, and wherein the received geographic location is not based on an IP address.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the request is a web browser request, and wherein the session information is extracted from a user agent string of the web browser request.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the session information includes both system information of the user system and web browser information of the requesting web browser.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the session information includes multiple session parameters, and wherein the sending of the session information includes sending an importance rating for at least one of the session parameters.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a similarity rating between the sent session information and:

common session information associated with the geographic location, or

common session information associated with alleged geographic location.

14. A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for smart location determination, the instructions executable by a processor of a system to cause the system to:

access session information that details a session of a user system as it connects to a web technology server;

access or determine an allege geographic location related to an alleged IP address of the user system;

access a knowledge base that includes known common session information of multiple geographic locations;

compare the accessed session information to the knowledge base, and based on the comparison, determine a geographic location of the user system; and

determine that the geographic location is different than the alleged geographic location, and based on this, determine that a proxy was used to generate the alleged IP address.

15. A machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the determination that a proxy was used is further based on previous analysis of other session information for other sessions where it was determined for those sessions that the determined geographic location was different than the alleged geographic location.