Meta Platforms, Inc.
Detecting mobile device attributes

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes sending a first request comprising an http-header that includes one or more http-header fields for a webpage from a first user to a computing server, receiving a second request for access to a first information associated with the mobile-client system from the computing server in response to the first request, wherein the first information comprises one or more user-profile fields associated with a user profile of the first user, sending the first information responsive to the second request to the computing server, and receiving the requested webpage customized based on one or more determined attributes of the mobile-client system from the computing server, the one or more attributes being determined based on a comparison between the one or more http-header fields and the one or more user-profile fields with a database comprising attributes of a plurality of types of mobile-client systems.