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Tracking remote browser crashes via cookies

  • US 8,745,202 B2
  • Filed: 04/03/2009
  • Issued: 06/03/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for tracking activity on mobile devices, performed at a mobile client device with a persistent memory and a web browser configured to execute at the mobile client device, comprising:

  • defining a crash indicator cookie that corresponds to a client web application that executes within the web browser at the mobile client device;

    initiating the client web application, including;

    determining whether the crash indicator cookie for the client web application is present in the persistent memory;

    when the crash indicator cookie is not present in the persistent memory;

    storing the crash indicator cookie in the persistent memory;

    when the crash indicator cookie is present in the persistent memory;

    determining information about the mobile client device and the web browser, andsending, to a remote web server, a message that includes the information and an indication of an occurrence of an abnormal event; and

    deleting the crash indicator cookie from the persistent memory when the client web application terminates normally.

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