Identification of software robot activity
US10380627B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 12, 2016 |
| Grant date | Aug 13, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 14, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/1441
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for identifying software robot activity in a communication network, the method comprising: receiving ad delivery requests from multiple clients identified by a unique identifier; selecting a subset of clients from the multiple clients, based on a result of a mathematical operation applied to a character string in each of the unique identifiers; delivering ads only to the subset of clients, wherein each of the ads comprises a landing page URL (uniform resource locator); determining that landing page redirection requests which are received from clients not belonging to the subset are made by one or more software robots.
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