Patent ID: 8898270

Claim:
A device, comprising: at least one processor; at least one non-transitory computer readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein computer-executable instructions, comprising: a logging component that generates one or more logs containing log entries related to subscriptions to channels of content, wherein the log entries are of at least two types including: a first type of log entry that indicates the referring source from which a subscriber initiated a request for at least one of a subscribe or an unsubscribe event, and a second type of log entry that indicates completion of the at least one of the subscribe or the unsubscribe event, wherein the first type of log entry and second type of log entry do not contain uniquely identifiable information common to the first type and the second type such that a log entry of the first type is explicitly linked to a log entry of the second type; and a source determination component that analyzes the one or more logs to determine a referring source associated with a completed subscribe or unsubscribe event by inference of at least two common characteristics from at least two parameters of the first type of log entry with at least two parameters of the second type of log entry.