Inventors:
Brian J. Suthoff - Boston MA, US
International Classification:
G06F 21/20
Abstract:
The present invention is a system and method to provide the unique and persistent user identification of networked electronic devices (e.g., computers, mobile phones, game consoles, set-top boxes, etc.) and/or the users (the first-party) by correlating the public information received by a second-party with the private information available to a network access provider or other third-party and then the capability for the third-party to uniquely identify users/devices and provide data to second-parties. The invention is able to uniquely & persistently identify devices and users on a network without exchanging uniquely identifying information between the user/device and the content provider responding to the request (e.g., no reliance on passwords, cookies, challenge/response, encrypted strings.).