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Method for continuous, frame-specific click-stream recording

  • US 9,560,153 B2
  • Filed: 04/08/2016
  • Issued: 01/31/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for region-specific data tracking, comprising:

  • responsive to a user at a client device interacting with a network site associated with a server machine, collecting region-specific data in a database, the collecting performed by the client device or the server machine, the collecting including;

    responsive to a request that is associated with a first network address and that contains a first identifier for a first region of a view displayed on the client device, searching the database for records that contain the first identifier for the first region;

    determining, from the records that contain the first identifier for the first region, a record containing a time that immediately precedes the request, the record associated with a second network address;

    generating an entry that includes the first network address associated with the request, the first identifier for the first region, the second network address associated with the record immediately preceding the request, and a timestamp; and

    storing the entry in the database; and

    generating and storing a node structure that tracks movement of the user at the network site utilizing the region-specific data collected in the database, the node structure comprising a sequence of network addresses that originated from the first region of the view displayed on the client device, each node in the node structure representing a network address requested by the user.

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