System and program product for tracking web user sessions
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsEdward Vernon Busch, Troy Anthony Howard, Andrei Stephan Malacinski, Tai Woo Nam, Mary Catherine Streble
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Abstract
The present invention provides a solution for efficiently tracking web user sessions. Specifically, under the present invention, web user sessions are tracked on an analytics system based upon a unique identifier assigned to a requested web page and a session cookie that identifies a particular web user session. By tracking web user sessions in this manner, web page data transmitted during a particular web user session can be efficiently and accurately correlated for analysis.
Claims18
A system for tracking web user sessions, comprising:
- a reception system for receiving an initial communication from a received web page of a user system, wherein the initial communication includes initial web page data and a unique identifier corresponding to the web page received on the user system solely in response to a request made without previous providing of information for identifying a session to a system associated with the web page by the user system;
- a cookie system for providing a session cookie that identifies a current web user session;
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- a data system for correlating additional web page data received from the user system with the initial web page data based on the session cookie and the unique identifier, wherein the additional communication includes additional web page data, the unique identifier and the session cookie.
A program product stored on a recordable medium for tracking web user sessions, which when executed, comprises:
- program code for receiving an initial communication from a received web page of a user system, wherein the initial communication includes initial web page data and a unique identifier corresponding to a web page received on the user system solely in response to a request made without previous providing of information for identifying a session to a system associated with the web page by the user system;
- program code for providing a session cookie that identifies a current web user session;
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- program code for correlating additional web page data received from the user system with the initial web page data based on the session cookie and the unique identifier, wherein the additional communication includes additional web page data, the unique identifier and the session cookie.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.