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Link correction system and methods

  • US 10,506,075 B1
  • Filed: 03/26/2014
  • Issued: 12/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of dynamically correcting an affiliate link within an application, the method comprising:

  • detecting access to an affiliate link selected from within an application generated from a first website and executing on a mobile computing system comprising computer hardware, wherein the application comprises a substitute for the first website of a first entity and includes at least some of the same content as the first website enabling a user to access the at least some of the same content using a browser to access the first website or using the application without the mobile computing system communicating with the first website, the affiliate link comprising a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) corresponding to a second website associated with a second entity that is different than the first entity, the affiliate link a copy of an affiliate link included as part of the content from the first website, wherein the application provides access to the content from the first website without accessing a browser for accessing the first website and without accessing the first website;

    identifying an affiliate identifier of an affiliate associated with the affiliate link, wherein the first entity corresponds to the affiliate, and wherein the affiliate identifier is determined by at least accessing affiliate metadata of the affiliate;

    identifying device metadata associated with the mobile computing system;

    determining, based at least in part on one or more of the affiliate identifier or the device metadata, that the affiliate link is to be replaced with a corrected affiliate link;

    creating the corrected affiliate link from the affiliate link based at least partially on the affiliate identifier and the device metadata, the corrected affiliate link enabling access to the second website associated with the affiliate link, the corrected affiliate link comprising a modified version of the URL with one or more modified URL parameters, wherein the second website credits an account based at least in part on network traffic redirected to the second website, the affiliate identifier, and a determination that the affiliate link was accessed from the application;

    preventing access to the second website via the affiliate link selected from within the application executing on the mobile computing system; and

    overriding at least a portion of the application with a dynamic link updater that replaces the affiliate link with the corrected affiliate link,wherein at least said creating the corrected affiliate link is performed by a hardware processor of the mobile computing system.

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