Patent ID: 7937467
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying a customer computer involved in an online transaction with a merchant web site, the method comprising: receiving a communication from a customer browser of a customer computer responsive to a redirect script request delivered to the customer browser in response to accessing by the customer browser a merchant web site to effect an online transaction, wherein the redirect script request causes the customer browser to communicate with an archiver to deliver a script request; returning a machine data collection script from the archiver to the customer browser in response to the script request, the machine data collection script collecting information, including machine identifying information, of the customer computer; and storing a transaction record comprising information related to the online transaction including a transaction identification string for use in identifying the online transaction, wherein the transaction identification string associates the machine identifying information with the transaction record for purposes of monitoring for possible fraudulent transactions, wherein the monitoring is based at least in part on the machine identifying information; and monitoring for possible fraudulent transactions to identify suspicious behavior by a customer based at least in part on the machine identifying information and the transaction identification string.