Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer network managing – Computer network monitoring
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Tran, Philip B. (Department: 2155)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer network managing
Computer network monitoring
C709S238000, C709S245000, C709S217000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10704519
ABSTRACT:
A method for accurately determining the geographic location of a PC or other networked device on the Internet. Client software furnished by a service provider performs trace-route or other network analysis commands to known servers (e.g., eBay, Yahoo, Amazon) or even servers at random locations. The client collects an array of IP address and other network information as a result of the trace-routes, and the trace-route IP information is then transmitted to the service provider that is trying to identify the geographic location of the client. Using the array of IP addresses thus generated, the Internet server software can analyze location information of each Internet hop within each trace-route. For example, the server might look at the first five hops from the client to the server. If four of the five routers have addresses within the geographic area of interest, the server can conclude that the client is probably within the geographic area.
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Anderson Bruce
Godwin John P.
Goeller Kenneth
Le-Chau Luan
Spaulding Bryan Gentry
Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman
Movielink LLC
Tran Philip B.
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