| CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A method comprising:
receiving first network communication data for a first computing device over a communication network;
receiving second network communication data for a second computing device over the communication network;
extracting a first data set from the first network communication data, the first data set including first spatial data and first temporal data associated with the first computing device;
extracting a second data set from the second network communication data, the second data set including second spatial data and second temporal data associated with the second computing device;
correlating the first data set and the second data set, the correlating including:
computing a first geometric distance between the first temporal data and the second temporal data; and
computing a second geometric distance between the first spatial data and the second spatial data; and
identifying that the first computing device and the second computing device belong to a common user, the identifying being responsive to the first geometric distance being less than a first threshold value associated with a measure of time, and the second geometric distance being less than a second threshold value associated with a measure of physical location.
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