Patent ID: 7506355
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. In a distributed computing environment, a method to track end-user Web content viewing and navigation, the method comprising: generating a document for communication to a data warehouse, the document being generated during Web content transcoding operations, the document comprising: distributing transcoded source content representing a Web content to a client, the client being responsive to end-user presentation and navigation of the transcoded source content by recording corresponding ones of the IDs to a log for subsequent uploading to the data warehouse, the data warehouse being configured to map particular ones of the contextual characteristics to corresponding uploaded log recorded IDs to identify specific ones of the interface pages and the links accessed by an end-user, wherein the contextual characteristics comprise one or more of a master URL for a page of the interface pages, a source URL for an image embedded in the page, a link URL for a link within scope of the page, and a private identifier for an object on the page, context of the private identifier only being understood by a content author or administrative entity.