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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2012
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
John A. M. Hazen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Stan D. Pennington, Newcastle, WA (US);
Sermet Iskin, Issaquah, WA (US);
Robin C. Speed, Winchester, GB;
John M. Sheehan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott B. Graham, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An application based hardware identifier is generated for an application on a device. The application based hardware identifier is generated based on both information describing the application and information describing one or more hardware components of the device. The application based hardware identifier can also optionally be based on an identifier of a user of the device. The application based hardware identifier can be provided by the application to a service provider, allowing the service provider to associate the application based hardware identifier with a particular user or user account. However, as the application based hardware identifier is based on the application information, different applications on the same device will have different application based hardware identifiers. The application based hardware identifier thus helps maintain privacy by preventing tracking of the device across different applications.