Patent ID: 9680850
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of determining browser capabilities of a web client, comprising: receiving, by an originating machine, a request for a web page from the web client; generating, by the originating machine, responsive to receipt of the request: embedding, by the originating machine, the generated script in the generated response; sending, by the originating machine, the response, including the embedded script, to the web client for the web client to process by utilizing the browser; automatically and independently executing, by the web client, the embedded script to regenerate the PRID based on the web client having browser capabilities, and returning the regenerated PRID to the originating machine; comparing, by the originating machine, the returned regenerated PRID with the generated PRID to determine whether a match exists, the match indicating that the web client has the browser capabilities; wherein the originating machine further sends the generated PRIDs and the returned regenerated PRIDs to a controller machine which comprises storage means for storing the generated PRIDs and the returned regenerated PRIDs and computes matches and match ratios per corresponding IP address and session.