AUTHORIZATION OF NETWORK ADDRESS TRACKING,申请号US201414311125-传众专利搜索

AUTHORIZATION OF NETWORK ADDRESS TRACKING

申请公布号：US2015373537(A1)

申请号：US201414311125

申请日期：2014.06.20

申请公布日期：2015.12.24

申请人：

FACEBOOK, INC.

发明人：Toksvig Michael;Maguire Yael

分类号：H04W12/02;H04L29/06;H04W12/06

主分类号：H04W12/02

地址：MENLO PARK CA US

摘要：Various embodiments are disclosed for enabling a user to physically acknowledge monitoring of their mobile device's network address (e.g., upon entering a store to track the user's movement through the store based upon the mobile device's MAC address). An Access Point coupled with a network system may identify the user device's MAC address, but the network system may defer retention and use of the MAC address until the user provides a physical authorization to do so. The user may provide such a physical authorization by placing their mobile device in physical proximity to a kiosk. The kiosk may emit a signal via, e.g., a magnetic field, radiation, sonification, imaging, etc. An application running on the user device may receive this signal. For example, the kiosk may emit a magnetic field to manipulate the user device's compass hardware. The application may monitor and derive a kiosk identifier from these manipulations. The application may then provide the kiosk identifier (and the device MAC address in some embodiments) to the network system to verify the user's willingness for their MAC address to be monitored.

主权项：1. A computer-implemented method for providing user tracking authorization, comprising: detecting, by a mobile device, a signal from a kiosk, the mobile device associated with a unique identifier; extracting, by the mobile device, a verification from the signal from the kiosk; determining, by the mobile device, that the kiosk is authentic using the verification; and transmitting, by the mobile device, an authorization to track the unique identifier.