Patent ID: 8204965

Claim:
A method performed using one or more computers, wherein the one or more computers has access to electronic data containing personal identities of users of respective online user interface devices, and wherein an entity controlling the one or more computers has access to certain online activity performed using the online user interface device through an Internet connection, the method comprising: (a) receiving at one or more of the computers from a requesting server an electronic transmission of an IP address and a time and date; (b) automatically determining, using one or more of the computers, to which of the users the IP address received in part (a) was associated at the time and date received in part (a); and (c) automatically transmitting from one or more of the computers an electronic communication that causes delivery to the requesting server of offline data originating from an offline data provider, which offline data concern the user determined in part (b), which communication does not convey to the offline data provider information pertaining to a history of the online activity to which the entity has access, which online activity is performed by the user determined in part (b), and which delivery and which offline data do not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the user determined in part (b).