Patent ID: 9082128
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a peer-group score, comprising: receiving at a computing system information including a device identifier, a user score associated with the device identifier, and content provider information from a content provider, the device identifier being based on at least one user-configurable parameter and at least one non-user-configurable parameter of a user device used to access network-accessible content of the content provider, wherein the at least one non-user-configurable parameter comprises a degradation measurement of processing speed over time of a computer chip of the user device; categorizing the content provider as belonging to one or more classes of service based on the received information; retrieving from a database one or more provider-generated user scores belonging to an identical one of the one or more classes of service and being associated with an identical device identifier; and generating a peer-group score for the received device identifier based on the received user score and the one or more retrieved provider-generated user scores.