Methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsTeresa Vandusen, Achilleas Papakostas, Guy Syafoek, Denis Yastrebov, Dmitri Vasin
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history are disclosed. One disclosed method of collecting browsing history includes collecting a plurality of web requests, and for a web request in the plurality of web requests, determining a count indicating a number of other ones of the plurality of web requests that include a referrer identifying the web request. The method also includes when the count meets a threshold, indicating that the web request is a parent web request.
Claims29
A method of collecting browsing history, the method comprising:
- collecting a plurality of web requests;
- for a web request in the plurality of web requests, determining a count indicating a number of other ones of the plurality of web requests that include a referrer identifying the web request;
- and
- when the count meets a threshold, indicating that the web request is a parent web request.
A method of collecting browsing history, the method comprising:
- determining referrer counts of at least one referrer corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of collected web requests;
- and
- when a web request of the plurality of web requests has a respective referrer count that meets a threshold, indicating that the web request is a parent web request.
A tangible machine readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed, cause a processor to at least:
- determine a number of referrers corresponding to respective web requests of a plurality of web requests;
- and
- identify a web request of the plurality of web requests that has a respective number of referrers that meet a threshold as a parent web request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.