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A method for establishing an applicable local time zone of a web browser in a computing environment by a processor device, comprising:querying a plurality of time zone offsets over a predetermined period of time to obtain a listing of possible time zones;

selecting ones of the listing of possible time zones matching a polled absolute coordinated universal time (UTC) offset;

assigning a plurality of weights to the selected ones of the listing of possible time zones based on at least one of the matching polled absolute UTC offset, a matching daylight savings observance type, a matching Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accept-language header and a human population size; and

sorting the listing of possible time zones based on the plurality of assigned weights.

#1386Detecting BitTorrent Blocking

Applies to Claims 1

Submitted by: Taneem KabirLast updated: over 1 year ago

Title Detecting BitTorrent Blocking

ISBN 978-1-60558-334-1

Description

Scientific paper that attempts to design an easy-to-use tool to detect BitTorrent blocking and presents the results from a widely used public deployment of the tool.

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#1387Analyzing and Detecting Malicious Flash Advertisements

Applies to Claims 1,8

Submitted by: Taneem KabirLast updated: over 1 year ago

Title Analyzing and Detecting Malicious Flash Advertisements

Description

This paper discloses a tool that automates the analysis of Flash-based content in order to better identify malicious advertisements that get delivered to a user engaged in web browsing. Some of these malicious Flash ads are capable of detecting the local timezone of a user by querying "Date.getTimezoneOffset"

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#1395Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript

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Submitted by: Rommel HueckLast updated: over 1 year ago

Title Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript

Description

Blog written on how to detect a users time zone using Java

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