US 7,581,112 B2
Identifying fraudulent activities and the perpetrators thereof
Andrew Millard Brown, Mountain View, Calif. (US); Mathew Gene Henley, Campbell, Calif. (US); and Chris Lalonde, Campbell, Calif. (US)
Assigned to eBay, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/27,783.
Prior Publication US 2006/0156389 A1, Jul. 13, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 713—182  [713/193; 713/194] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for identifying a perpetrator of a fraudulent activity, the system comprising:
location logic to locate identifying information from a client communication;
analyzer logic to analyze the identifying information from the client communication; and
account identifier logic to identify multiple user accounts associated with a previous client communication in which the same identifying information was located.