Patent ID: 9686276
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a processor, from one or more computing devices via one or more networks, a first user identifier that is associated with a first electronic device and a second user identifier that is associated with a second electronic device that is different from the first electronic device; retrieving, by the processor, a dataset comprising a history of network transactions performed by the first user identifier and the second user identifier, wherein the dataset includes a plurality of entries, each entry of the plurality of entries having a respective user identifier associated with a respective attribute of a plurality of attributes; transforming, by the processor, the first user identifier into a hashed format or a reverse-hashed format to generate a transformed version of the first user identifier; determining, by the processor, that a match does not exist between the transformed version of the first user identifier and the second user identifier; and based on determining that the match does not exist: