Patent ID: 8677398
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method implemented using a programmed hardware computer system, the method comprising: (a) receiving, at the computer system, an electronic identifier of a first device; (b) with the computer system, automatically generating and storing electronic indicia of an association between the first device identifier and an electronic identifier of a second device based on automatically recognizing that each of the first and second devices was connected, independently of the other, to a common local area network, wherein the computer system is connected to the local area network through the Internet but is not in the local area network; and (c) with the computer system, based on the electronic indicia of the association between the first and second device identifiers, automatically sending an electronic transmission that causes another programmed hardware computer system to take an action, based on first electronic profile data associated with the first device identifier, with respect to the second device, which is indicated at the time of the action by the second device identifier.