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AssigneeACK Ventures Holdings, LLC
InventorsDavid Ulrich, Harry Kargman, Steve Anson, Jeremy Sadwith, Bernhard Valenti, Ryan McConville
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A technique for identifying an opt-out status for a user's mobile or other computing device without relying exclusively on client-side storage or primarily on the use of non-determinative mechanisms is discussed. Embodiments provide server-based or otherwise hosted techniques of accurately identifying devices of users that wish to opt-out of having their device activity tracked. These techniques enable accurate identification of a device's opt-out status even in the absence of a client-side opt-out indicator.
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A computing-device implemented method for associating opt-out status to a unified identifier (“Unified ID”) for a computing device, comprising:
A non-transitory medium holding executable instructions for associating opt-out status to a unified identifier (“Unified ID”) for a computing device, the instructions when executed by one or more processors on one or more computing devices causing the one or more computing devices to:
The medium of claim 13, wherein the anonymized or hashed personally identifiable information is an email address, physical address and/or phone number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.