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US 8,949,176 B2Granted
Method and system for profile control
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Swinton, Steven Whitehead, Kay Bechtel
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Abstract
A system and method may include monitoring communications between a user device, a website, and a behavioral tracking provider, capturing user information transmitted during the monitored communications, analyze the user information to determine one or more relationships between the user device, the websites, and the behavioral tracking provider, and outputting the one or more relationships to the user device.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- monitoring, via an information tracker module comprising at least one processor, a data stream between a user device and a media provider, wherein the data stream comprises one or more requests for one or more webpages;
- identifying, via the information tracker module, a behavioral tracking provider associated with the media provider, wherein the identifying is based, at least in part, on information comprised in the one or more webpages, wherein the information comprised in the one or more webpages comprises one or more tracking codes embedded in the one or more webpages;
- receiving, via the information tracker module, a tracking request from the user device to the behavioral tracking provider, wherein the tracking request comprises user identification information and is generated based, at least in part, on the one or more tracking codes;
- capturing, via the information tracker module, user information while the user information is being transmitted via a data stream between the user device and the identified behavioral tracking module, wherein the user information is associated with the user identification information;
- analyzing, via an information database module comprising at least one electronic database, the user information to determine one or more relationships between the user device, the media provider, the one or more webpages, and the behavioral tracking provider;
- and
- outputting, via a user interface module, the one or more relationships to the user device.
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A system comprising:
- an information tracker module comprising at least one processor, configured to:
- monitor a data stream between a user device and a media provider, wherein the data stream comprises one or more requests for one or more webpages,
- identify a behavioral tracking provider associated with the media provider, wherein the identifying is based, at least in part, on information comprised in the one or more webpages wherein the information comprised in the one or more webpages comprises one or more tracking codes embedded in the one or more webpages,
- receive a tracking request from the user device to the behavioral tracking provider, wherein the tracking request comprises user identification information and is generated based, at least in part, on the one or more tracking codes, and
- capture user information while the user information is being transmitted via a data stream between the user device and the identified behavioral tracking provider, wherein the user information is associated with the user identification information, an information database module comprising at least an electronic database, configured to:
- store user information transmitted during the monitored communications, and
- analyze the user information to determine one or more relationships between the user device, the media provider, the one or more webpages, and the behavioral tracking provider;
- and
- an user interface module configured to output the one or more relationships to the user device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.