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Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2010
Applicants:

Anirban Dasgupta, Berkeley, CA (US);

Liang Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);

Maxim Gurevich, Cupertino, CA (US);

Achint Oommen Thomas, Buffalo, NY (US);

Belle Tseng, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anirban Dasgupta, Berkeley, CA (US);

Liang Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);

Maxim Gurevich, Cupertino, CA (US);

Achint Oommen Thomas, Buffalo, NY (US);

Belle Tseng, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards clustering cookies for identifying unique mobile devices for associating activities over a network with a given mobile device. The cookies are clustered based on a Bayes Factor similarity model that is trained from cookie features of known mobile devices. The clusters may be used to determine the number of unique mobile devices that access a website. The clusters may also be used to provide targeted content to each unique mobile device.


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