Method and systems for locating geographical locations of online users
First Claim
1. A location tracking system for building a geographic location database of network nodes in a computer network comprising:
- a trace engine module configured to send trace Id commands to a plurality of user terminals, wherein said user terminals are actively coupled to a server node and said trace engine module obtains IP address of each of said user terminals and its corresponding geographic location, a first database configured to store IP addresses obtained by said trace engine module and their corresponding geographical location; and
a second database configured to store a set of physical connections between IP addresses obtained by said trace engine module.
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Abstract
A location tracking system for building a geographic location database of network nodes in a computer network includes a trace engine module configured to send trace Id commands to a plurality of user terminals. The user terminals are actively coupled to a server node so that the trace engine module is able to obtain IP address of each of the user terminals and its corresponding geographic location. A first database is configured to store IP addresses obtained by the trace engine module and their corresponding geographical locations. A second database is configured to store a set of physical connections between IP addresses obtained by the trace engine module. The system can then determine the geographical location of end user terminals who employ the database as previously populated.
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22 Claims
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1. A location tracking system for building a geographic location database of network nodes in a computer network comprising:
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a trace engine module configured to send trace Id commands to a plurality of user terminals, wherein said user terminals are actively coupled to a server node and said trace engine module obtains IP address of each of said user terminals and its corresponding geographic location, a first database configured to store IP addresses obtained by said trace engine module and their corresponding geographical location; and
a second database configured to store a set of physical connections between IP addresses obtained by said trace engine module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for building a geographic location database of network nodes in a computer network comprising:
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sending trace Id commands to a plurality of user terminals, wherein said user terminals are actively coupled to a server node so as to obtain IP address of each of said user terminals and its corresponding geographic location, storing in a first database, IP addresses obtained along with their corresponding geographical location; and
storing in a second database, a set of physical connections between IP addresses obtained. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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