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DeviceRecognition
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The process of device recognition is an important stage in the use of the DDR API. Given some evidence from the delivery context (e.g. the HTTP headers of a request from a device), it is necessary to determine the identity of the device so that one may query a repository for information about that device.
This model assumes that recognition is separate from the repository lookup, which is a sensible assumption given the diversity of evidence that may be used. For example, some of the ways of recognizing a device are:
- The HTTP User Agent header
- The HTTP Accepts header
- Two or more of the HTTP headers in combination
- The IMEI of the mobile device
- Asking the user