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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
May. 07, 2007
Soren Riise, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Devesh Patel, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Anthony Burgess, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Soren Riise, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Devesh Patel, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Anthony Burgess, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for tracking sales leads, including a lead clearing house logging receipt in a log of one or more encrypted leads received from a participant of the lead clearing house, the one or more leads including personal lead information having been encrypted with a one-way hash algorithm; comparing the received one or more encrypted leads with stored encrypted leads to find any matches; updating the log related to the one or more encrypted leads with unencrypted log information associated with the matching one or more encrypted leads; and communicating a status to the participant based on the log relating to the one or more leads.