Methods and apparatus for user identification via community detection

An apparatus to modify personally identifiable information to device links comprising:

• memory;
• and
• processor circuitry including one or more of:
• at least one of a central processing unit, a graphic processing unit or a digital signal processor, the at least one of the central processing unit, the graphic processing unit or the digital signal processor having control circuitry to control data movement within the processor circuitry, arithmetic and logic circuitry to perform one or more first operations corresponding to instructions, and one or more registers to store a result of the one or more first operations, the instructions in the apparatus;
• a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the FPGA including logic gate circuitry, a plurality of configurable interconnections, and storage circuitry, the logic gate circuitry and interconnections to perform one or more second operations, the storage circuitry to store a result of the one or more second operations;
• or
• Application Specific Integrate Circuitry (ASIC) including logic gate circuitry to perform one or more third operations;
• the processor circuitry to perform at least one of the first operations, the second operations or the third operations to instantiate:
• impression data receiver circuitry to access personally identifiable information to device links;
• data grapher circuitry to build a device graph based on the personally identifiable information to device links;
• and
• community modifier circuitry to split components of the device graph into person clusters using community detection, the community modifier circuitry including:
• data partitioner circuitry to partition the personally identifiable information to device links into communities, each community representative of a distinct device;
• and
• community selector circuitry to select a community to be modified.