Patent ID: 9444839
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying a network device, the method comprising: capturing, by a hardware processor of one or more servers, a plurality of attributes from the network device being connected to a web service, the plurality of attributes uniquely identifying the network device from a plurality of networks devices; maintaining the network device free from any software programs associated with the capturing of the plurality of attributes; determining, by the hardware processor, a device identifier based on a programmatic transformation of the plurality of attributes captured from the network device, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of attributes are related to one or more of ID information, network information, location information, device information, browser information, site information, or time information associated with the network device; capturing, by the hardware processor, a plurality of second attributes from a second network device being connected to the web service; determining, by the hardware processor, a second device identifier based on a programmatic transformation of the plurality of second attributes captured from the second network device; determining, by the hardware processor, if the network device is compromised based on a comparison of the device identifier and the second device identifier; and determining, by the hardware processor, a classification of the network device based on the device identifier.