Detecting content and user response to content

• US 8,060,601 B1
• Filed: 08/21/2007
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: comScore, Inc., comScore Networks, Inc. (comScore, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: comScore, Inc.
• Inventors: Huang, Xinyu, Brown, Michael, Grant, Glen
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit; Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US11/842,816
• Time in Patent Office: 1,547 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A first set of data including a first tracking identifier for a first webpage component and a destination address for the first webpage component is accessed. A second set of data that includes an address for retrieving a second webpage component, is accessed. The address includes a second tracking identifier. Whether the second tracking identifier is the same as the first tracking identifier is determined. The second webpage component is associated with the destination address when the second tracking identifier is the same as the first tracking identifier.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing a first input file that includes a first address for retrieving a first webpage component and a destination address for the first webpage component, wherein the first webpage component comprises a first advertisement and the first address for retrieving the webpage component includes a tracking identifier that associates the first advertisement with an advertising campaign;

extracting the tracking identifier from the first address in the accessed first input file;

storing the extracted tracking identifier in a dictionary;

storing the destination address in the dictionary such that the destination address is associated with the tracking identifier;

accessing a second input file that includes a second address for retrieving a second webpage component, wherein the second webpage component comprises a second advertisement, different from the first advertisement, and the second address includes the tracking identifier such that the second advertisement is associated with the advertising campaign;

extracting the tracking identifier from the second address in the accessed second input file;

accessing the tracking identifier and the associated destination address from the dictionary;

determining that the tracking identifier extracted from the second address and the tracking identifier accessed from the dictionary are the same; and

in response to determining that the tracking identifier extracted from the second address and the tracking identifier accessed from the dictionary are the same, associating the second webpage component with the destination address accessed from the dictionary.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining a number of impressions of one or more advertisements included in the advertising campaign based, at least in part, on the association of the second webpage component with the destination address.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the tracking identifier comprises a consecutive sequence of characters included in the first address for retrieving the first webpage component.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein extracting the tracking identifier from the first address in the accessed first input file includes:

accessing a data extraction pattern from a data extraction rule file, the data extraction rule file being stored in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format; and

applying the data extraction pattern to the first address in the accessed first input file in order to extract the tracking identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first web page component is an advertisement selected by a first member of a panel and the second webpage component is an advertisement displayed to a second member of the panel and not selected by the second member of the panel.

6. A system comprising:

one or more processing devices and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processing devices, to cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising;

accessing a first input file that includes a first address for retrieving a first webpage component and a destination address for the first webpage component, wherein the first webpage component comprises a first advertisement and the first address for retrieving the webpage component includes a tracking identifier that associates the first advertisement with an advertising campaign;

extracting the tracking identifier from the first address in the accessed first input file;

storing the extracted tracking identifier in a dictionary;

storing the destination address in the dictionary such that the destination address is associated with the tracking identifier;

accessing a second input file that includes a second address for retrieving a second webpage component, wherein the second webpage component comprises a second advertisement, different from the first advertisement, and the second address includes the tracking identifier such that the second advertisement is associated with the advertising campaign;

extracting the tracking identifier from the second address in the accessed second input file;

accessing the tracking identifier and the associated destination address from the dictionary;

determining that the tracking identifier extracted from the second address and the tracking identifier accessed from the dictionary are the same; and

in response to determining that the tracking identifier extracted from the second address and the tracking identifier accessed from the dictionary are the same, associating the second webpage component with the destination address accessed from the dictionary.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the one or more storage devices further store instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processing devices, to cause the one or more processing devices to determine a number of impressions of one or more advertisements included in the advertising campaign based, at least in part, on the association of the second webpage component with the destination address.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein the tracking identifier comprises a consecutive sequence of characters included in the first address for retrieving the first webpage component.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein extracting the tracking identifier from the first address in the accessed first input file includes:

accessing a data extraction pattern from a data extraction rule file, the data extraction rule file being stored in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format; and

applying the data extraction pattern to the first address in the accessed first input file in order to extract the tracking identifier.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the first web page component is an advertisement selected by a first member of a panel and the second webpage component is an advertisement displayed to a second member of the panel and not selected by the second member of the panel.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more processing devices which, upon such execution, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:

accessing a first input file that includes a first address for retrieving a first webpage component and a destination address for the first webpage component, wherein the first webpage component comprises a first advertisement and the first address for retrieving the webpage component includes a tracking identifier that associates the first advertisement with an advertising campaign;

extracting the tracking identifier from the first address in the accessed first input file;

storing the extracted tracking identifier in a dictionary;

storing the destination address in the dictionary such that the destination address is associated with the tracking identifier;

accessing a second input file that includes a second address for retrieving a second webpage component, wherein the second webpage component comprises a second advertisement, different from the first advertisement, and the second address includes the tracking identifier such that the second advertisement is associated with the advertising campaign;

extracting the tracking identifier from the second address in the accessed second input file;

accessing the tracking identifier and the associated destination address from the dictionary;

determining that the tracking identifier extracted from the second address and the tracking identifier accessed from the dictionary are the same; and

in response to determining that the tracking identifier extracted from the second address and the tracking identifier accessed from the dictionary are the same, associating the second webpage component with the destination address accessed from the dictionary.

12. The medium of claim 11 further comprising instructions executable by one or more processing devices which, upon such execution, cause the one or more processing devices to perform the operation of determining a number of impressions of one or more advertisements included in the advertising campaign based, at least in part, on the association of the second webpage component with the destination address.

13. The medium of claim 11 wherein the tracking identifier comprises a consecutive sequence of characters included in the first address for retrieving the first webpage component.

14. The medium of claim 11, wherein extracting the tracking identifier from the first address in the accessed first input file includes:

accessing a data extraction pattern from a data extraction rule file, the data extraction rule file being stored in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format; and

applying the data extraction pattern to the first address in the accessed first input file in order to extract the tracking identifier.

15. The medium of claim 11, wherein the first web page component is an advertisement selected by a first member of a panel and the second webpage component is an advertisement displayed to a second member of the panel and not selected by the second member of the panel.