METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT PROVIDERS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THEIR USERS ACCESS THE INTERNET

摘要

A system and method for accurately identifying the geographic location from which users access a Web site and the network origin of a user's request. The end user (200) interacts with Web server (202) over network (204) which may be the Internet. Web server (202) is provisioned with Applicaion Program Interface API (206), engine (208) and a local instance of the database (210) within the content provider execution environment (205). The content delivery network CDN manages database update processes (212). In operation, the user request for the Web site reaches the Web sites reaches the Web server (202) which uses the API (206) to send the user's IP address to the engine (208). If the engine (208) does not have the user's geographic and network data stored locally in the database (210) or cannot obtain it, the engine (208) retrieves that data form the knowledge base sotred on the CDN.