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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2005
Richard Brindley, Chesham, GB;
Toby Doig, New Barnet, GB;
Richard Brindley, Chesham, GB;
Toby Doig, New Barnet, GB;
Vibrant Media Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A system and a method are disclosed for detecting and preventing fraud in online advertising environments. In one embodiment, the system and process include a publisher with a web page with which an advertisement set and a unique request identifier are sent to a user browser when the user requests the web page. The unique request identifier is unique, publisher specific, advertisement specific, for a single instance. A database keeps track of the unique request identifier so that when a user 'clicks' on a link to access an advertiser's web site, the unique request identifier associated with the advertisement can be checked against the unique request identifier in the database to determine whether the 'click' was one that may be non-fraudulent or valid.