Patent ID: 8838967

Claim:
A method of identifying mobile electronic devices, comprising: a. collecting a first plurality of configuration settings of a first mobile electronic device, b. optionally summarizing, simplifying, and/or encoding the data of part a, c. transmitting the result of part b to a third party, d. collecting a second plurality of configuration settings of a second mobile electronic device which may or not be the same as said first mobile electronic device, e. performing the same operation of part b on the data of part d, f. transmitting the result of part e to said third party, g. said third party calculating how similar the data received in part c is to the data received in part f, and h. if, in part g, said third party determines said data received in part c is more than a threshold similar to said data received in part f, then determining that said first mobile electronic device is likely the same as said second mobile electronic device.