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US 8,832,206 B2Granted
Email recipient behavior tracking
AssigneeHostopia.com Inc.
InventorsDirk Bhagat, Annie Perrier
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Abstract
A system in which a message from a server is transmitted to a recipient device, the message including an image reference that identifies the location of an image. A request is received for the image file from the recipient device. The image file is transmitted to the recipient device and a start time of the transmitting is noted. Upon detecting that the image file has ceased being transmitted, an end time of the transmission is noted. The end time and start time are compared to make a determination of whether the message was read.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- transmitting a message from a server to a recipient device, the message including an image reference that identifies the location of an image file;
- receiving a request for the image file from the recipient device;
- recording a start time at a beginning of transmitting the image file to the recipient device;
- recording an end time upon detection of an end of transmitting of the image file;
- computing a difference between the end time and the start time;
- and
- comparing the difference to a threshold to make a determination of whether the message was read.
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A method, comprising:
- transmitting a message from a server to a recipient device, the message including an image reference that identifies the location of a first image file;
- receiving a request for the first image file from the recipient device;
- recording a start time at a beginning of transmitting the first image file to the recipient device;
- receiving one or more requests for one or more additional image files from the recipient device;
- transmitting the one or more additional image files;
- recording an end time upon detection of an end of transmitting of the one or more additional image files;
- computing a difference between the end time and the start time;
- and
- comparing the difference to a threshold to make a determination of whether the message was read.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.