Tracking desktop application referrals to content distributed over a network

US8949350B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Marcus L. Belvin · Raleigh, US
• Matthew C. Hillary · Kihei, US
• Kimberly D. McCall · Leander, US
• Henri F. Meli · Cary, US
• Yingxin Xing · Durham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 26, 2011
• Grant date: Feb 3, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Tracking initiation of network content requests is achieved by receiving at a network device requests from clients for network content, and tracking initiation of network content requests based upon initiator information, wherein the initiator information comprises information relating to each type of application hosted by a client that initiates the client request for network content from the network device.