Patent ID: 9363337
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A server-device-implemented method for tracking remote application installations, the method comprising: receiving, by said server device via a first application executing on a remote computing device, a first request for a first resource identified by a first Uniform Resource Locater (“URL”); determining, by said server device, a device identifier and a remote-device type associated with said remote computing device; identifying, by said server device, an information payload that is associated with said first URL; identifying, by said server device, an application that is optionally installable on devices of said remote-device type and that can be used to access said information payload; determining, by said server device, that said installable application is not installed on said remote computing device; generating, by said server device, a redirection message including an application identifier by which said remote computing device can obtain and install said installable application; sending, by said server device, said redirection message to said remote computing device; storing or updating, by said server device, a record associating said device identifier with said first request; subsequently receiving, by said server device via said installable application, an installation indication indicating that said installable application is executing following a remote application-installation event; determining, by said server device, that said installation indication was received from said remote computing device, from which said first request was recently received; and storing or updating, by said server device, a record associating said remote application-installation event with at least said first URL.