Online machine data collection and archiving process

US007937467B2

(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,937,467 B2

Barber (45) Date of Patent: *May 3, 2011 (54) ONLINE MACHINE DATA COLLECTION 5,679,940 A 10/1997 Templeton et al. AND ARCHIVING PROCESS 5,703,950 A 12/1997 Jovanovich et al. 5,845,267 A 12/1998 Ronen (75) Inventor: Timothy P. Barber, Boise, ID (US) 2 §;)iY;l:tIl;lLet al' 5,903,721 A 5/1999 S‘ t (73) Assignee: Kount Inc., Boise, ID (US) 5,930,777 A 7/1999 Blziirblsr 5,991,758 A 11/1999 Ellard ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term ofthis 6,000,832 A * 12/1999 Franklin et a1~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ 700/232 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 6’097’834 A 8/2000 _Krouse et 31' U.S.C. l54(b) by 0 days. (contlnued) This patent is subject to a terminal dis- FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS C1a1mer' CA 2381025 Al 2/2001 (21) Appl. No.: 12/607,335 (Continued) (22) Filed: Oct. 28, 2009 OTHER PUBLICATIONS

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Related US' Application Data Primary Examiner * Kristie D Shingles

(63) Continuation of application No. 12/030,057, filed on (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm i Fenwick & West LLP Feb. 12, 2008, which is a continuation of application

No. 09/873,339, filed on Jun. 5, 2001, now Pat. No. (57) ABSTRACT 7330371‘ An online machine data collection and archiving process (60) Provisional application No. 60/209,936, filed on Jun. generates a machine data Pr0fi1e Of 8 CHSIOIIIBI‘ COII1puter 7 , 2000, accessing a transaction form of a merchant web site and links the machine data profile and a transaction record with cus(51) Int. Cl. tomer identifying information using a unique transaction G06F 15/1 73 (2006.01) identification string. The process preferably captures param(52) U.S. Cl. ....................... .. 709/224; 709/223; 709/225 eters typically Communicated as a part Ofweb accesses, such (58) Field of Classification Search ................ .. 709/223, as an IP address, an HTTP header, and Cookie information709/224’ 225 The process additionally causes the customer computer to See application file for Complete Search history process self-identification routines by processing coding within the merchant transaction form, the self-identification (56) References Cited routines yielding further profile parameters. The process further includes a routine for bypassing an intervening proxy to U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS the merchant web site to reveal the true IP address of the 5,175,682 A 12/1992 Higashiyama et al. Customer Computen 5,444,616 A 8/1995 Nair et al. 5,563,946 A 10/1996 Cooper et al. 41 Claims, 5 Drawing Sheets 1 r40 f MACHINE DA‘I‘A /‘Z COLLECTION SCRIPT BROWSER PROCESSES REQUE$T CODED TRANSACTION FORM INTO MERCHANT WEB UPON ACCESSING SITE TRANSACTION MERCHANT WEB SITE FORM J45 /M ARCHIVE SERVICE ' GENERATES TRANSACTION MDC SCRIPT REQUEST ID STRING 81/ASSOCIATES FORWARDED TO MACHINE WITH CUSTOMER MACHINE '-_I DATA ARCHIVE SERVICE PROFIE I [48 so TRANSACTION ID To I—. TRANSACTION ID STRING BROWSER INTO TRANSACTION FORM /54 52

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