The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data to one or more data structures that become accessible to a server hosting an authorized domain when a user accesses the authorized domain.
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16. A computer-implemented method, implemented, at least in part, by hardware in combination with software, the method comprising:
summarizing observed cross-network user behavior data using a behavior summarizing module operating on a client computer, wherein the observed cross-network user behavior includes:
access to web sites that are not all associated with a content provider, a user behavior collection network, and a portal; and
at least one keyword derived from context of the access to the web sites; and
wherein the summarizing for the observed cross-network user behavior includes deriving a summary metric of the user's degree of interest in subject categories from a plurality of subject categories; and
publishing the summary metric from the behavior summarizing module to one or more memory structures; and
providing information in the summary metric in the one or more memory structures from the client computer to a server at an authorized domain in response to the user accessing the authorized domain via the client computer via a network.
14. A computer-implemented method, implemented, at least in part, by hardware in combination with software, the method comprising:
observing, by hardware in combination with software on a client computer, cross-network user behavior of a user of the client computer, wherein the cross-network user behavior relates, at least in part, to
the client computer accessing a plurality of web sites that are not all associated with a user behavior data collection network, are not all associated with a content provider, and are not all associated with a portal, and
at least one keyword derived from context of a selection action by the user on the client computer;
selecting a subject category from a plurality of subject categories and deriving a summary metric of the user's degree of involvement in the selected subject category for a particular cross-network user behavior of the user of the client computer;
publishing the summary metric to one or more memory structures on the client computer; and
in response to the user accessing an authorized domain via the client computer via a network, providing at least some of the information in the summary metric in the one or more memory structures from the client computer to a server at the authorized domain.
1. A computer-implemented method, implemented, at least in part, by hardware in combination with software, the method comprising:
collecting, using hardware in combination with software on a client computer, cross-network user behavior data related to a user's interactions on the client computer with a plurality of web sites, wherein not all of the plurality of web sites are associated with a content provider, and not all of the plurality of web sites are associated with a portal;
summarizing the cross-network user behavior data on the client computer, the summarizing including, for a plurality of subject categories, one or more of:
categorizing recency of the user visiting a web site on the client computer in at least some of the plurality of subject categories,
categorizing user category involvement from the user visiting the website on the client computer in at least some of the subject categories by rolling up indicators of visits into categorical time segments,
categorizing recency of selections of at least one banner advertisement on the client computer, and
categorizing user category involvement from user selections of the at least one banner advertisement on the client computer; and
publishing the summarized cross-network user behavior data on the client computer to one or more memory structures on the client computer; and
in response to the user accessing an authorized domain via the client computer via a network, providing at least some of the summarized cross-network user behavior data in the one or more memory structures on the client computer to a server at the authorized domain.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
prioritizing a plurality of subject categories,
selecting at least one subject category of the plurality of subject categories, and
publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data for the plurality of subject categories to a single memory structure.
5. The method of
6. The method of
7. The method of
8. The method of
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. The method of
12. The method of
13. The method of
the categorizing recency of the user visiting the web site on the client computer in the at least some of the plurality of subject categories,
the categorizing user category involvement from the user visiting the website on the client computer in the at least some of the subject categories by the rolling up the indicators of the visits into the categorical time segments,
the categorizing recency of the selections of the at least one banner advertisement on the client computer, and
the categorizing user category involvement from the user selections of the at least one banner advertisement on the client computer.
15. The method of
17. The method of
prioritizing the plurality of subject categories;
selecting at least one subject category of the plurality of subject categories; and
publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data for the plurality of subject categories to a single memory structure.
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This application is a continuation of and seeks priority to U.S. nonprovisional application Ser. No. 11/226,066, entitled “Method and Device for Publishing Cross-Network User Behavioral Data,” filed Sep. 14, 2005, published Jun. 22, 2006 as U.S. Publication No. 2006-0136528 A1, issued Apr. 6, 2010 as U.S. Pat. No. 7,693,863, which claims benefit of U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/637,684, filed Dec. 20, 2004, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein.
This application is related to commonly owned U.S. application Ser. No. 10/289,123, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,512,603, entitled “Responding to End-User Request for Information in a Computer Network” by inventors Eugene A. Veteska, David L. Goulden, and Anthony G. Martin, filed on Nov. 5, 2002, and issued on Mar. 31, 2009. The related application is also incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data and further relates to restoring damaged data structures, either data structures summarizing cross-network user behavioral data or data structures remotely identifying to logic running on a user computer. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data to one or more data structures that become accessible to a server hosting an authorized domain when a user accesses the authorized domain. The restoring of damaged data structures may particularly include automatically detecting deletion of or damaged to data structures and restoring the damaged data structures.
Advertising is most successful when it matches the viewer's desires. When the viewer uses a client computer to surf the web and visit websites hosted by servers, advertising can be targeted. One way to target users is to provide sponsored links in response to a search, using a search engine such as the engines provided by Google and Yahoo. Another way is to trigger advertising when a user visits a website, for instance using a so-called web beacon. Cookies can be used to identify a user that is searching or visiting a website and match the user to a server-side database that selects advertising to deliver. Server-side databases currently reflect information collected by servers connected to websites that users visit. Websites that are aggregated into a particular server-side database can be described as belonging to a user behavior collection network.
An opportunity arises to better target users, taking advantage of client software running on the client computer. Client-side software can monitor a user's web browsing activity, regardless of whether websites visited belong to a first or second user behavior collection network or no network at all. New technology can publish user behavior data during browsing and reduce or eliminate reliance on matching the user to the server-side database.
The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data to one or more data structures that become accessible to a server hosting an authorized domain when a user accesses the authorized domain. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.
The following detailed description is made with reference to the figures. Preferred embodiments are described to illustrate the present invention, not to limit its scope, which is defined by the claims. Those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize a variety of equivalent variations on the description that follows.
To illustrate an environment in which the present invention may be useful, we point to and incorporate by reference U.S. application Ser. No. 10/289,123, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,512,603, entitled “Responding to End-User Request for Information in a Computer Network” by inventors Eugene A. Veteska, David L. Goulden, and Anthony G. Martin, filed on Nov. 5, 2002, and issued on Mar. 11, 2009. Some of the discussion that immediately follows is borrowed from the prior application, which is commonly owned, but much is recast to a new paradigm of assembling user profile information client-side and publishing it using cookies.
Although embodiments of the present invention are described herein in the context of the Internet, the present invention is not so limited and may be used in other data processing applications.
A user submits a search request because of the user's interest in a topic. To make good use of the information about a user's interest, a behavior watching and/or behavior summarizing program 120 resident in the client computer listens for requests, for instance made using a browser 110 or other hyperlink enabled programs such as word processors or presentation programs. It listens for requests for information such as a search request, a click-through on a banner ad, or entry into the browser or click through of a destination URL. When the behavior watching program 120 detects that an end-user is performing a search or otherwise indicating their interest in a web site or subject, the behavior watching program records the interest. The interest may be recorded to program memory or to a persistent memory 122. When a user clicks on an advertisement related to the end-user's search request, the probability that the end-user will be interested in one or more related advertisements increases. In the car example, just above, the behavior watching program may note that the search was followed by certain click-throughs.
The behavior watcher 120 is resident in the client computer 100 so that it can respond to an end-user's search request even when the end-user uses different search engines. That is, unlike other targeting techniques that only work when an end-user is on a particular web site, the behavior watching program observes user interest across different search engines, web sites and even browsers. An end-user may obtain the behavior watching program by itself or along with free or reduced-cost computer programs, services, and other products.
The behavior responsive server 132 presents a new approach to providing content responsive to recent user behavior. User behavior has in the past been observed using a cookie with a unique user ID that allows server-side tracking. Server aggregated user behavior data is compiled among an organization of cooperating server owners. Cooperation may relate to ad serving (e.g., Double-Click), portals (e.g., Yahoo), search engines (e.g., Google) or other organizational basis. Cooperation in this sense is contractual more than technical. Server aggregated user behavior data is used, for instance, by an ad server when a web beacon (a small, null image with a URL pointing to an ad server) contacts the ad server and causes a unique user ID cookie to be transmitted. The ad server accesses a database, to update user behavior data with the new contact. The ad server could also access data from the server aggregated database, based on the unique user ID. A serious limitation of server aggregated user behavior data is that it is limited to contacts detected by cooperating servers when the user accesses cooperating web sites and the user's unique user ID cookie is transmitted. Mismatches of unique user IDs or multiple unique user IDs for the same user diminish the effectiveness of server-side aggregation. The combination of client-side user behavior tracking 120 and a reported-behavior responsive server 132 presents a new approach.
A reported-behavior responsive server 132 accepts one or more messages (e.g., cookies) that report recent user behavior as a basis for deciding among potential messages (e.g., banner ads) which message to give the user. The reported-behavior responsive server 132 need not access a server-side user behavior database to decide which message to send. Those of skill in the art will recognize that the new paradigm of reported behavior could be combined with server-side aggregation and that that combination also would be novel.
A client computer 100 is typically, but not necessarily, a personal computer such as those running the Microsoft Windows™, Apple Macintosh™, Linux, or UNIX operating systems. An end-user may employ a suitably equipped client computer 100 to get on network 200 and access computers coupled thereto. For example, a client computer 100 may be used to access web pages from a web server computer 130. It is to be noted that as used in the present disclosure, the term “computer” includes any type of data processing device including personal digital assistants, digital telephones, wireless terminals, and the like.
A web server computer 130 may host a web site containing information designed to attract end-users surfing on the Internet. A web server computer 130 may host or cooperate with another server that hosts advertisements, downloadable computer programs, a search engine and products available for online purchase. A web server computer 130 may also host or cooperate with an ad server for that delivers advertisements to a client computer 100.
A reported-behavior responsive server computer 132 serves message units for delivery to a client computer 100. The message units may contain advertisements, for example. Message units are further described below. A reported-behavior responsive server computer 132 may also host downloadable computer, programs and files for supporting, updating, or maintaining components on a client computer 100.
Web server computers 130 and reported-behavior responsive server computer 132 are typically, but not necessarily, server computers such as those available from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Dell or International Business Machines. A client computer 100 may communicate with a web server computer 130 or a reported-behavior responsive server computer 132 using client-server protocol. It is to be noted that client-server computing will not be further described here.
The components of a client computer 100 are not illustrated in a separate figure, but are well-understood. In one embodiment, the components of client computer 100 shown in
As shown in
The behavior watching program 120 may be downloadable from a message server computer 103. Behavior watching program 120 may be downloaded in conjunction with the downloading of another computer program. For example, behavior watching program 120 may be downloaded to a client computer 100 along with a utility program that is provided free of charge or at a reduced cost. The utility program may be provided to an end-user in exchange for the right to deliver messages to the end-user via behavior watching program 120. In essence, revenue (e.g., advertising fees) from messages delivered to the end-user helps defray the cost of creating and maintaining the utility program. Other components such as operating system components, utility programs, application programs, and the like are not shown for clarity of illustration.
The behavior watcher 120 includes computer-readable program code that compiles a user profile from behavior watching. It monitors web browser 110 for search requests, uniform resource locators (URLs) of web sites visited by an end-user surfing on the Internet and ad click-throughs.
The web page with the URL search.finderskeepers.com/bin/search?p=hotrod+car” contains the search result for the keywords “hotrod” and “car”. Knowing the URL format employed by finderskeepers.com allows extraction of the words following “ . . . /search?p=” and separated by “+”. String manipulation functions may be used to extract keywords from the URL. It is to be noted that different search engines may employ different URL formats. Accordingly, a keyword extractor component of the behavior watcher may first parse the URL to determine the name of the search engine, and then employ parsing rules for that search engine. In the present example, keyword extractor may first parse the URL “http://search.finderskeepers.com/bin/search?p=hotrod+car” to get the name of the search engine, which is “ . . . finderskeepers.com/ . . . ”, and then apply parsing rules for finderskeepers.com. Keyword extractor may take advantage of delimiters and end of string indicators employed by a particular search engine to parse a URL. In one embodiment, keyword extractor includes parsing rules for popular search engines. The keyword extractor also may act on entry or click-throughs of URLs and click-throughs of banner ads, to cross-reference those interest indications to key words. A keyword extractor is further described in the application incorporated by reference.
Referring back to
TABLE 1
Include List
Exclude List
hotrod
paper
car
the
books
for
computer
Britney
cellular
. . .
sports
. . .
wine
. . .
. . .
. . .
In the example of Table 1, the exclude list includes non-relevant words such as commonly used words that are too general to be useful. The exclude list may also include words that have no commercial value. For example, “Britney” may have no commercial value to most advertisers except those affiliated with or licensed by Britney the pop-star.
In the example of Table 1, the include list includes relevant words. In one embodiment, a word is considered relevant if there is a corresponding message unit for that word. For example, the word “computer” may be relevant if there is a message unit containing an advertisement for a personal computer. Similarly, the word “book” may be relevant if there is a message unit relating to books.
Data collected by the behavior watcher 120 are illustrated by
A client-side profile includes things like category visits, searches, user identification, language and time zone. Indications of user interest are assigned to categories. In one embodiment, 200-300 categories are recognized. Of course, fewer or more categories might be recognized. The more categories recognized, the more data bits required to store category IDs. Potentially, categories could be organized hierarchically. Recency may be recorded by time bins, such as within the last hour, 1-2 hours, 2-4 hours, 4-24 hours, 1-7 days, 7-30 days, 31-60 days. Alternatively, bins or categories for 7-14 days, 0-5 minutes, 5-15 minutes, 15-30 minutes and 30-60 minutes may be of interest. Searches for key words of commercial interest may be more important than some other indications of user interest. The behavior watcher 120 may keep track of the last commercial keyword entered in a search and a time bucket for the last commercial keyword entered. Over a certain outer history limit, the time bucket may be empty. Machine-related information may include a unique machine ID, language settings, time zone of the user, and installation date of the relevant software. Data stored either to persistent memory 122 or cookie memory 124 may be compressed and encrypted to save space and prevent hacking. Compression, beyond the categorization described, and encryption schemes are well known and not described here. Cookies, at least, should include version number so that the server receiving the cookie will understand how to interpret the cookie. Other header information may be supplied as desired. Cookies tracking user behavior are written by the behavior watcher 120, as opposed to the server 130.
Machine information is one type of data that may be stored in persistent memory 122 and cookies 124. The information associated with the machine may include version of the cookie, the time written, a unique ID, a locale (such as a ZIP code, area code or something similar), user's time zone, and an application name, version and installation time. Machine information may be rewritten to memory every 24 hours, every new day, or on some other periodic basis. It may be stored as columns separated by delimiters, then encrypted and compressed.
The behavior watcher may track and summarize visits. It may record, such as to persistent memory 122, each indication of user interest, including use of key words in searches, entry of URLs and click-throughs of URLs and banner ads. Banner ads may be segregated into regular banner ads, site exit banner ads that are triggered when leaving a particular URL, brander banner ads that are triggered when visiting a first URL, then displayed in visiting a second URL, and run of network banner ads that are triggered based on a count of navigations from one URL to the next.
With the categorical coding of recency and user category involvement in mind, we turn to
The behavior watcher 120 preferably sorts the category history information in
Use of information published by the behavior watcher 120 to accessible memory structures is also illustrated in
One issue with publishing behavioral data to cookies is deletion of cookies. Cookies are automatically deleted by a browser 110 when they reach an expiration date or when there are too many cookies. Users manually delete cookies using browser controls. Many software applications have been developed to analyze and delete certain cookies. Therefore, publication of behavioral data to cookies is sometimes not enough to assure that the resulting memory structures will be accessible to reported-behavior responsive servers 132. It is useful to have a mechanism to republish or restore cookies that have been deleted.
Backup and restoration of cookies is also illustrated by
The present invention may be practiced as a method or device adapted to practice the method. The same method can be viewed from the perspective of a behavior summarizing module optionally including a behavior observing module and a summary publishing module. The invention may be an article of manufacture such as media impressed with logic to carry out computer-assisted behavior summarizing optionally including behavior observing module and a summary publishing module.
One embodiment is a method of publishing behavioral data from a client computer via network to an authorized domain. This method includes summarizing observed cross-network user behavior data using a behavior summarizing module operating on a user's computer, wherein the observed cross-network user behavior includes accessing web sites that are not all associated with a particular user behavior data collection network. Alternatively, cross-network may refer to web sites or other content delivery vehicles that are not all associated with a particular portal or a particular virtual storefront or a particular content provider. The behavior further includes at least one of a mouse click-through, enter keystroke or other selection action by the user and at least one keyword derived from context of the selection action. The summarizing includes deriving a categorical metric of the user's degree of interest in subject categories, from the observed cross-network user behavior data, for a multiplicity of subject categories. The method includes publishing the summarized cross-network user behavior data from the behavior summarizing module to a memory structure, wherein the memory structure becomes accessible via a network to a server at an authorized domain when the user uses the network to access the authorized domain. This method may be extended in several ways.
A further aspect of this method includes prioritizing a multiplicity of subject categories, selecting a plurality of the multiplicity of subject categories, and publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data for the plurality of subject categories to a single memory structure. This memory structure, optionally, may be a so-called cookie. Another aspect of this method may include observing the cross-network user behavior data using a behavior watching module operating on the user's computer. The behavior watching module may be integrated with the behavior summarizing module. Alternatively, the two behavior-related modules may be separate modules, even using separate hardware.
The cross-network behavioral data may include user selection of one or more of the following: submission of a search term to a search engine, either using a browser interface or a search engine-specific interface, visiting a portal, visiting a virtual storefront, visiting a content provider, entering a URL in a browser address window, selecting a URL hyperlink, or clicking on a banner ad associated with a link. More generally, the user selection may be any navigation among documents that are linked semantically or by addresses. The meaning given to “cross-network” above also applies here.
Publishing to the memory structure may take place on a periodic basis and/or on an update basis. By an update basis, it is meant that the memory structure update follows detection of the user selection.
Yet another aspect of this method may include receiving at the user's computer advertising targeted using the summarized cross-network user behavior data published to the memory structure that became accessible when the user used the network to access the authorized domain.
The categorizing may include rolling up indicators of visits into non-overlapping categorical time segments of differing lengths. This may be accomplished by representing a plurality of granular time segments with flags to indicate user category involvement and summarizing a portion of the granular time segments by aggregation to the categorical time segments.
Another embodiment is a method of publishing behavioral data collected by a behavior watching module operating on the user's computer, including summarizing cross-network user behavior data recorded to memory. The summarizing includes, for a multiplicity of subject categories, deriving one, two, three or four of the following items: (1) categorizing recency of visiting a web site in the subject category by evaluating a most recent visit time-date indicator; (2) categorizing frequency of user visits to web sites in the subject category by rolling up indicators of visits during seven, ten or more time segments or any number of categorical time segments, which time segments were recorded on a rolling basis; (3) categorizing recency of selection of a banner ad to obtain additional information in the subject category by evaluating a most recent visit time-date indicator; or (4) categorizing frequency of user selections of the banner ad to obtain additional information in the subject category by rolling up indicators of visits during seven, ten or more time segments or any number of categorical time segments, which time segments are tracked on a rolling basis. The method further includes publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data from a behavior summarizing module to memory structure that becomes accessible via a network to a server at an authorized domain when the user uses the network to access the authorized domain.
Any and all aspects of the first embodiment may be applied to the second embodiment.
A related embodiment is a method of republishing a memory structure on a user's computer, wherein the memory structure summarizes cross-network user behavior data and becomes accessible via a network to a server at an authorized domain when the user uses the network to access the authorized domain. This method includes providing a logic to be installed on a user's computer, the logic having access to a storage area for the memory structure, having access to persistent memory distinct from the memory structure storage area, and the logic operating on the user's computer without requiring the user to specifically invoke the logic. This method further includes the logic automatically detecting when the memory structure that summarizes cross-network user behavior data has been deleted or damaged and responding by restoring at least part of the data structure to the data structure storage area from the distinct persistent memory.
One aspect of this embodiment is that the data structure may be a so-called cookie used for HTTP state management. The names of cookies may be used to associate the cookies with authorized domains. The distinct persistent memory may be a registry including name-value pairs or a separate storage area.
A variation on the immediately preceding embodiment is a method of backing up and restoring a memory structure on a user's computer. This method includes providing a logic to be installed on a user's computer, the logic having access to a storage area for the memory structure, having access to persistent memory distinct from the memory structure storage area, and the logic operating on the user's computer without requiring the user to specifically invoke the logic. This method further includes remotely identifying the logic one or more favored memory structures to be backed up and automatically backing up the favored memory structures to the distinct persistent memory. The method further includes automatically detecting that at least one particular favored memory structure has been deleted or damaged and automatically restoring at least part of that particular memory structure to the memory structure storage area using data from the distinct persistent memory. The aspects of the immediately preceding embodiment apply to this embodiment as well.
Device embodiments of these methods may include a memory structure area of memory, a persistent memory distinct from the memory structure storage area and logic operating as part of the user's computer, without requiring the user to specifically invoke the logic, the logic having access to the memory structure storage area and the distinct persistent memory. The device further includes the communications channel connected to the network. The logic is adapted to carry out any of the method embodiments described above using the communications channel.
Claims of Provisional Application No. 60/637,684
1
[observing keyword for selection, summarizing and publishing to
memory structure]
A method of publishing behavioral data from a client computer via a
network to an authorized domain using a cookie, including:
observing cross-network user behavior data using a behavior watching
module operating on a user's computer, wherein the cross-network user
behavior
includes accessing web sites that are not all associated with a particular
user behavior data collection network, and
further includes at least one of a mouse click-through, enter keystroke
or other selection action and at least one keyword derived from context
of the selection action;
summarizing by subject category for a multiplicity of subject categories
the observed cross-network user behavior data using a behavior
summarizing module, including deriving a categorical metric of the
user's degree of interest in the subject category from the observed cross-
network user behavior data; and
publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data from the
behavior summarizing module to a memory structure,
wherein the memory structure is accessible via a network to a server at
an authorized domain when the user uses the network to access the
authorized domain.
2
[keyword for selection previously observed, summarizing and
publishing to memory structure]
A method of publishing behavioral data from a client computer via a
network to an authorized domain, including:
summarizing observed cross-network user behavior data using a
behavior summarizing module operating on a user's computer, wherein
the observed cross-network user behavior includes accessing web sites
that are not all associated with a particular user behavior data collection
network, and
further includes at least one of a mouse click-through, enter keystroke
or other selection action by the user and at least one keyword derived
from context of the selection action;
wherein the summarizing includes deriving a categorical metric of the
user's degree of interest in subject categories, from the observed cross-
network user behavior data, for a multiplicity of subject categories; and
publishing the summarized cross-network user behavior data from the
behavior summarizing module to a memory structure,
wherein the memory structure becomes accessible via a network to a
server at an authorized domain when the user uses the network to access
the authorized domain.
3
The method of claim 2, further including prioritizing a multiplicity of
subject categories, selecting a plurality of the multiplicity of subject
categories, and publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data
for the plurality of subject categories to a single memory structure.
4
The method of claim 2, further including observing the cross-network
user behavior data using a behavior watching module operating on the
user's computer.
5
The method of claim 2, wherein the cross-network behavioral data
include visits to a plurality of web sites or selections of banner ads that
are not all associated with a particular behavioral data collection
network. [portal, virtual storefront, content provider].
6
The method of claim 3, wherein the cross-network behavioral data
include behavioral data corresponding to a plurality of visits to web
sites or selections of banner ads that are not all associated with a
particular behavioral data collection network.
7
The method of claim 2, wherein the cross-network behavioral data
include behavioral data corresponding to a plurality of visits to web
sites or selections of banner ads that are accessed using a plurality of
browsers.
8
The method of claim 2, wherein publishing takes place on a periodic
basis.
9
The method of claim 2, wherein publishing takes place on an update
basis, after one or more web sites have been visited or one or more
banner ads have been selected.
10
The method of claim 2, further including receiving at the user's
computer advertising targeted using the summarized cross-network user
behavior data published to the memory structure that became accessible
when the user used the network to access the authorized domain.
11
[summarizing and publishing any of four categories of data]
A method of publishing behavioral data collected by a behavior
watching module operating on a user's computer, including:
summarizing cross-network user behavior data recorded to [persistent]
memory, the summarizing including, for a multiplicity of subject
categories, deriving any one or more of
categorizing recency of visiting a web site in the subject category by
evaluating a most recent visit time-date indicator,
categorizing frequency of user visits to web sites in the subject category
by rolling up indicators of visits during ten or more discrete time
segments [non-overlapping; daily], which discrete time segments were
recorded on a rolling basis [bit string; rolled daily],
categorizing recency of selections of a banner ad to obtain additional
information in the subject category by evaluating a most recent visit
time-date indicator,
categorizing frequency of user selections of a banner ad to obtain
additional information in the subject category by rolling up indicators of
visits during ten or more discrete time segments, which discrete time
segments are tracked on a rolling basis;
publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data from a
behavior summarizing module to a memory structure that becomes
accessible via a network to a server at an authorized domain when the
user uses the network to access the authorized domain.
12
The method of claim 11, further including prioritizing a multiplicity of
subject categories, selecting a plurality of the multiplicity of subject
categories, and publishing the summarized cross-network behavior data
for the plurality of subject categories to a single memory structure.
13
The method of claim 11, further including observing the cross-network
user behavior data using a behavior watching module operating on a
user's computer.
14
The method of claim 11, wherein the cross-network behavioral data
include visits to a plurality of web sites or selections of banner ads that
are not all associated with a particular behavioral data collection
network. [portal, virtual storefront, content provider].
15
The method of claim 12, wherein the cross-network behavioral data
include behavioral data corresponding to a plurality of visits to web
sites or selections of banner ads that are not all associated with a
particular behavioral data collection network.
16
The method of claim 11, wherein the cross-network behavioral data
include behavioral data corresponding to a plurality of visits to web
sites or selections of banner ads that are accessed using a plurality of
browsers.
17
The method of claim 11, wherein publishing takes place on a periodic
basis.
18
The method of claim 11, wherein publishing takes place on an update
basis, after one or more web sites have been visited or one or more
banner ads have been selected.
19
The method of claim 11, further including receiving at the user's
computer advertising targeted using the summarized cross-network user
behavior data published to the memory structure that became accessible
when the user used the network to access the authorized domain.
20
A method of backing up and recreating cookies on a user's computer,
including:
providing logic to be installed on the user's computer, the logic
having access to a storage area for cookies,
having access to persistent memory distinct from the cookies storage
area, and operating without requiring the user to specifically invoke the
logic;
remotely identifying to the logic one or more favored cookies to be
backed up;
the logic automatically backing up the favored cookies to the distinct
persistent memory;
the logic automatically detecting that at least one particular favored
cookie has been deleted or damaged; and
the logic automatically restoring at least part of the particular favored
cookie to the cookies storage area using data from the distinct persistent
memory.
21
The method of claim 20, wherein the cookies are used for HTTP state
management.
22
The method of claim 20, wherein names of the cookies associate the
cookies with web sites.
23
The method of claim 20, wherein the distinct persistent memory is a
registry including name-value pairs.
24
The method of claim 20, wherein the cookies are encoded and the
backing up preserves the encoding without understanding how to
decode the cookies.
25
The method of claim 20, further including identifying to the logic one
or more identifiers for the persistent memory to be used for backing up
the cookies.
26
The method of claim 20, further including a web server receiving data
from the restored particular favored cookie.
27
The method of claim 20, wherein the logic is invoked when a browser is
started.
28
A device operating as part of a user's computer, the device including:
a cookies storage area of memory;
a persistent memory distinct from the cookies storage area;
logic operating as part of the user's computer, without requiring the user
to specifically invoke the logic, the logic having access to the cookies
storage area and to the distinct persistent memory;
a communications channel connected to a network; the logic adapted to
receive through the communications channel identifications of favored
cookies that should be backed up,
automatically back up the favored cookies from the cookies storage
area to the distinct persistent memory;
automatically detect that at least one particular favored cookie has been
deleted or damaged; and
automatically restore at least part of the particular favored cookie to the
cookies storage area using the data from the distinct persistent memory.
While the present invention is disclosed by reference to the preferred embodiments and examples detailed above, it is understood that these examples are intended in an illustrative rather than in a limiting sense. Computer-assisted processing is implicated in the described embodiments. It is contemplated that modifications and combinations will readily occur to those skilled in the art, which modifications and combinations will be within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the following claims.
Martin, Anthony, Goulden, David L., Bennett, Dominic V., Petersen, Roger, Paczkowski, Remigiusz K.
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