Patent ID: 7698377

Claim:
A method of providing geographic locations of Internet users to requestors, comprising: collecting geographic locations on a plurality of Internet users and storing the geographic locations in a database, wherein geographic locations of users associated with proxy sewers are collected using applet tags; receiving a query from a particular requester of a plurality of requestors for the geographic location of a particular Internet user, the query containing at least one of an IP address or a domain name for the particular Internet user; determining whether the geographic location of that particular Internet user is available in the database; if the geographic location is available in the database, delivering the geographic location on that particular Internet user to the particular requestor; receiving and storing information in the database from the particular requestor about the particular Internet user's interactions with the particular requestor; and creating a profile of the particular Internet user based on queries received from one or more of the plurality of requestors and stored information about the particular Internet user's interactions with the one or more of the plurality of requestors.