US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 13 for "Associating a user identifier detected from web traffic with a client address" (American, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,593, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Associating a user identifier detected from web traffic with a client address" was invented by David McGrew (Poolesville, Md.), Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Ivan Nikolaev (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device in a network receives a set of known user identifiers used in the network. The device receives web traffic log data regarding web traffic in the network. The web traffic log data includes header information captured from the web traffic and a plurality of client addresses associated with the web traffi...