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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2016
Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Shariq Rizvi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ameet Ranadive, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhishek Shrivastava, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wenchang Zhou, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bill Darrow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Santosh Kancha, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Travis Lull, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tom Larson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yimin Wu, Seattle, WA (US);
Xiaochuan Qin, Issaquah, WA (US);
Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for online conversion attribution. The system includes a short uniform resource locator (URL) service programmed to, in response to receiving a short URL from a device: provide a cookie that includes a short URL ID to the device, and provide a short URL descriptor including the short URL ID to a user mapping service. The system further includes the user mapping service programmed to receive the short URL descriptor, receive a social media descriptor including a social media ID, map the short URL ID to the social media ID using the short URL descriptor and the social media descriptor, and attribute, using the mapping, a conversion on a website accessed using the device based upon receipt of the short URL ID from the device.