Nova Patents
US20080098220A1

Method and system for monitoring online behavior at a remote site and creating online behavior profiles

Claim Score by NHIP

Read claim 17, the broadest

Abstract

A method and system for monitoring users on one or more computer networks, disassociating personally identifiable information from the collected data, and storing it in a database so that the privacy of the users is protected. The system includes monitoring transactions at both a client and at a server, collecting network transaction data, and aggregating the data collected at the client and at the server. The system receives a user identifier and uses it to create an anonymized identifier. The anonymized identifier is then associated with one or more users' computer network transactions. The data is stored by a collection engine and then aggregated to a central database server across a computer network.

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Projected expiry passed 16 February 2021, 5.6 years ago.

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19 claims: 17 independent, 2 dependent

  1. 16
    A computer system for collecting network transaction data generated by users accessing a network through an internet service provider without associating personally identifiable information with the network transaction data comprising:a communication port coupled to a computer network, the computer network providing access to one or more provider collection engines at internet service provider sites;one or more processors;and memory containing computer instructions that, collect network transaction data from the one or more provider collection engines at the internet service provider sites wherein the network transaction data includes one or more anonymized identifiers, and wherein the one or more anonimized identifiers are created at an internet service provider site using an identifier obtained at the internet service provider;associate collected transaction records with the collected network transaction data;and store the associated data.
  2. 17
    Broadest claimClaim Score 79, broad(NHIP)A method for collecting transaction data generated by users accessing a network through an internet service provider, comprising:obtaining data using a collection engine at the internet service provider representing data transmitted across the computer network, said data being representative of transactions;creating a transaction record for each transaction including an anonymized identifier;and storing the transaction record.
Independent claims2