Patent ID: 11863310
Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a first decryption key usable for decryption associated with a first originating web site;
receiving a second decryption key usable for decryption associated with a second originating web site;
accessing cookie data associated with a user device, the cookie data associated with a plurality of originating websites that individually generate respective portions of the cookie data for storage as one or more cookies, wherein the cookie data corresponds to user activity of a user of the user device;
determining two or more characteristics of the user by decrypting a first portion of the cookie data that originated from the first originating website using the first decryption key and decrypting a second portion of the cookie data that originated from the second originating website using the second decryption key, wherein portions of the cookie data have been encrypted differently from each other based on an originating web site that originally generated the respective portion of the cookie data, wherein the two or more characteristics of the user include at least (a) a first characteristic determined from the first portion of the cookie data that originated from the first originating website and (b) a second characteristic determined from the second portion of the cookie data that originated from the second originating website; and
associating, in a database, the two or more characteristics of the user with an identifier of the user.