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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2020
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Rami Al-Kabra, Bothell, WA (US);
Douglas Galagate, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Yatskowitz, Seattle, WA (US);
Chuong Phan, Seattle, WA (US);
Tatiana Dashevskiy, Edmonds, WA (US);
Prem Kumar Bodiga, Bothell, WA (US);
Noah Dahlstrom, Seattle, WA (US);
Ruchir Sinha, Newcastle, WA (US);
Jonathan Morrow, Issaquah, WA (US);
Aaron Drake, Sammamish, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for identifying certain types of network activity are disclosed, including parsing of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to identify a plurality of key-value pairs in a query string of the URL. The plurality of key-value pairs may include one or more potential anonymous identifiers. In an example embodiment, a machine learning algorithm is trained on the URL to determine whether the one or more potential anonymous identifiers are actual anonymous identifiers (i.e., advertising identifiers) that provide advertisers a method to identify a user device without using, for example, a permanent device identifier. In this embodiment, a ranking threshold is used to verify the URL. A verified URL associate the one or more potential anonymous identifiers with the user device as actual anonymous identifiers. Such techniques may be used to identify and eliminate malicious and/or undesirable network traffic.