Remote invocation mechanism for logging

• US 20140032629A1
• Filed: 07/22/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acuityads
• Original Assignee: Visible Measures Corp. (AcuityAds Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shin, Brian J., Wilson, Andrew S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,578,089 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

One or more events occurring within a client-side web application are logged at a remote server using a script-based invocation mechanism. The mechanism comprises a client-side script, and associated server-side code. Upon occurrence of an event to be logged, a script object is created on the client and used to pass logged data to the server, which then issues a response to destroy the script object. In this manner, the script object is created and persists in the client only as long as it is needed to log the event.

Claims

1. A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium article that stores a program, the program being executable in association with a client to:

dynamically create and insert a script object into a page, the script object being a set of instructions distinct from the instructions that comprise the page, wherein the script object is not present in the page when the page is received in the client;

execute the script object to collect data concerning an event and to forward that data to a server, wherein the data describes one of;

a feature, a fault, and a failure; and

upon receipt of a response from the server, to destroy the script object by removing the set of instructions from page.

2. The computer program product as described in claim 1 wherein the response from the server is a delete script that is written into the page.

3. The computer program product as described in claim 2 wherein the delete script causes the script object to be deleted from page after a given timeout.

4. The computer program product as described in claim 1 wherein the event is an action associated with a given e page object.

5. The computer program product as described in claim 1 wherein the data is forwarded to the server via http.

6. The computer program product as described in claim 1 wherein the script object is a Javascript object.

7. An article, comprising:

computer memory; and

a script adapted to be integrated into an application and executed upon a given occurrence, wherein, upon such execution, the script (a) dynamically creates and inserts a script object into the application, the script object being a distinct set of instructions that are not present in the application prior to the given occurrence and that operates to collect and forward to a server data about the given occurrence, and (b) upon receipt of a response from the server, destroys the script object by removing the set of instructions from the application.

8. The article as described in claim 7 wherein the server is a tracking server.

9. The article as described in claim 7 wherein the application is a web page having a browser-enabled script, or a Rich Internet Application.