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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2009
Yury A. Izrailevsky, Hayward, CA (US);
Anand Biligiri Subba Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ramkumar Rajendran, Redmond, WA (US);
Sunil Nagaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nanda Kumar Jayakumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Georgiy Goldenberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joonsuk Bae, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kian-tat Lim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yury A. Izrailevsky, Hayward, CA (US);
Anand Biligiri Subba Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ramkumar Rajendran, Redmond, WA (US);
Sunil Nagaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nanda Kumar Jayakumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Georgiy Goldenberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joonsuk Bae, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kian-Tat Lim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A device, system, and method are directed towards managing and tracking of cross-domain user activities through use of a beacon. As a user of a client device requests content from different domain services managed by a common entity, they may receive a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a beacon in at least one of the different domains. In one embodiment, the beacon is a single pixel image. The client device may also receive a Match-ID. A beacon server in one of the other domains may receive the request for the beacon, and store in a domain log the Match-ID, and other information about the client device, which domain service provided the URL, and/or other related user activities. The different domain logs may then be employed for use in searching for matching Match-IDs, joining common user or client device activities, and for tracking other cross-domain user activities.