Patent ID: 11936751
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method, comprising:
transmitting, by at least one server of a linking system, to a plurality of client devices, a plurality of cookies of the linking system, each cookie of the plurality of cookies transmitted to a corresponding client device of the plurality of client devices, each respective cookie of the plurality of cookies transmitted to the corresponding client device in response to a first respective request to access a respective first resource of one of a plurality of domains from a respective second resource of one of the plurality of domains via a respective first link encoded by the linking system, the plurality of domains including a first domain and a second domain;
updating, by the at least one server, for each respective client device of the plurality of client devices, in response to receiving a respective second request from the respective client device to access a respective third resource of the first domain from a respective fourth resource of the second domain via a respective second link encoded by the linking system, the respective cookie of the linking system to indicate that the respective client device has accessed the respective first resource and the respective third resource of the first domain and the respective second resource and the respective fourth resource of the second domain, and to identify a source resource on which the respective second link is presented and a destination resource to which the respective client device is redirected via the respective second link;
identifying, by the at least one server, using the plurality of cookies of the linking system, a number of client devices that have accessed at least one of a first plurality of resources of the first domain and at least one of a second plurality of resources of the second domain via links encoded by the linking system;
determining, by the at least one server, that the number of client devices identified using the plurality of cookies of the linking system transmitted to the plurality of client devices satisfies a threshold number to associate the first domain and the second domain;
storing, by the at least one server, responsive to determining that the number of client devices satisfies the threshold number, in one or more data structures, an association between the first domain and the second domain as accessed by the number of client devices via the links encoded by the linking system; and
providing, by the at least one server, an indication of the association between the first domain and the second domain as accessed by the number of client devices.