Requesting offline profile data for online use in a privacy-sensitive manner
First Claim
1. A method performed using one or more computers, wherein the one or more computers has access to electronic data containing personal identities of users of respective online user interface devices, and wherein an entity controlling the one or more computers has access to certain online activity performed using the online user interface device through an Internet connection, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving at one or more of the computers from a requesting server an electronic transmission of an IP address and a time and date corresponding to online access or an online redirect to the requesting server via an online access device of a user;
(b) automatically determining, using one or more of the computers, to which of the users the IP address received in part (a) was associated at the time and date received in part (a); and
(c) automatically electronically directing, from one or more of the computers to the requesting server, offline data originating from an offline data provider, which offline data concern the user determined in part (b) and were received from the offline data provider before the IP address, time, and date were received in part (a), and which directing and which offline data do not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the user determined in part (b).
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Abstract
A method, performed using one or more servers under the control of an ISP, comprises: (a) receiving an electronic transmission from a requesting server of an IP address and a time and date; (b) automatically determining to which subscriber of the ISP the received IP address was allocated at the received time and date; and (c) automatically transmitting an electronic communication that causes delivery to the requesting server of offline data originating from an offline data provider. The delivered offline data concern the subscriber determined to have been allocated the received IP address at the received time and date. The communication does not convey to the offline data provider the subscriber'"'"'s history of online activity, and the delivery does not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the subscriber.
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12 Claims
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1. A method performed using one or more computers, wherein the one or more computers has access to electronic data containing personal identities of users of respective online user interface devices, and wherein an entity controlling the one or more computers has access to certain online activity performed using the online user interface device through an Internet connection, the method comprising:
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(a) receiving at one or more of the computers from a requesting server an electronic transmission of an IP address and a time and date corresponding to online access or an online redirect to the requesting server via an online access device of a user; (b) automatically determining, using one or more of the computers, to which of the users the IP address received in part (a) was associated at the time and date received in part (a); and (c) automatically electronically directing, from one or more of the computers to the requesting server, offline data originating from an offline data provider, which offline data concern the user determined in part (b) and were received from the offline data provider before the IP address, time, and date were received in part (a), and which directing and which offline data do not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the user determined in part (b). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system comprising one or more computers, wherein the one or more computers has access to electronic data containing personal identities of users of respective online user interface devices, and wherein an entity controlling the one or more computers has access to certain online activity performed using the online user interface device through an Internet connection, wherein the one or more computers are structured and connected to:
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(a) receive at one or more of the computers from a requesting server an electronic transmission of an IP address and a time and date corresponding to online access or an online redirect to the requesting server via an online access device of a user; (b) determine automatically, using one or more of the computers, to which of the users the IP address received in part (a) was associated at the time and date received in part (a); and (c) automatically electronically direct, from one or more of the computers to the requesting server, offline data originating from an offline data provider, which offline data concern the user determined in part (b) and were received from the offline data provider before the IP address, time, and date were received in part (a), and which directing and which offline data do not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the user determined in part (b). - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. An article comprising a non-transitory tangible medium encoding computer-readable instructions that, when applied to one or more computers that have access to electronic data containing personal identities of users of respective online user interface devices and are controlled by an entity that has access to certain online activity performed using the online user interface device through an Internet connection, instruct one or more of the computers to:
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(a) receive at one or more of the computers from a requesting server an electronic transmission of an IP address and a time and date corresponding to online access or an online redirect to the requesting server via an online access device of a user; (b) determine automatically, using one or more of the computers, to which of the users the IP address received in part (a) was associated at the time and date received in part (a); and (c) automatically electronically direct, from one or more of the computers to the requesting server, offline data originating from an offline data provider, which offline data concern the user determined in part (b) and were received from the offline data provider before the IP address, time, and date were received in part (a), and which directing and which offline data do not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the user determined in part (b). - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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