US 11,743,354 B2
Method of loading clickstream data into a web analytics platform
Michael Roberts, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Eugene Louis Young, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Ryan McLaughlin, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Tree Fine-Hardesty, Tucson, AZ (US); and Kylan Kempster, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to Spy Fu, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by SpyFu Properties, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,745.
Application 17/698,745 is a division of application No. 16/260,169, filed on Jan. 29, 2019, granted, now 11,283,886.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/632,929, filed on Feb. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210237 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 67/50 (2022.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0204 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 67/535 (2022.05) [G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0205 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of determining a vendor-specific client ID comprising the steps of:
A. retrieving a finite amount of clickstream data from a computer server by using an internet web browser application on a host computer;
B. examining the clickstream data to determine if a vendor ID is present in the clickstream data, and if it is present, determining whether the vendor ID is specific to a website; and if the vendor ID is not specific to the website, obtaining a finite amount of recent activity data from the computer server and determining whether the vendor ID is present in the recent activity data to a second plurality of websites that are different from the website; and if a user ID is present in the second plurality of websites, then inserting the user ID into a data file; and
C. sending the data file from the host computer to the web analytics platform.