US Patent Issued to Intent IQ on April 1 for "Cross-device actions using common IP address device association" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,565, issued on April 1, was assigned to Intent IQ LLC (Long Island City, N.Y.).

"Cross-device actions using common IP address device association" was invented by Roy Shkedi (Forest Hills, N.Y.) and Dror Ben-Yishai (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile provider: (i) associates a primary online device (OD1) with a set-top box (STB); (ii) a location of OD1 at some point in time is estimated to be "near" the STB, thereby establishing a STB proxy location; (iii) one or more secondary online devices (OD2s) are observed to be located "near" the STB proxy location and are associated with the STB; and (iv) a television ad...