Patent ID: 8407609

Claim:
A method for tracking digital media presentations delivered from a first computer system to a user's computer via a network comprising: providing a corresponding web page to the user's computer for each digital media presentation to be delivered using the first computer system; providing identifier data to the user's computer using the first computer system; providing an applet to the user's computer for each digital media presentation to be delivered using the first computer system, wherein the applet is operative by the user's computer as a timer; receiving at least a portion of the identifier data from the user's computer responsively to the timer applet each time a predetermined temporal period elapses using the first computer system; and storing data indicative of the received at least portion of the identifier data using the first computer system; wherein each provided webpage causes corresponding digital media presentation data to be streamed from a second computer system distinct from the first computer system directly to the user's computer independent of the first computer system; wherein the stored data is indicative of an amount of time the digital media presentation data is streamed from the second computer system to the user's computer; and wherein each stored data is together indicative of a cumulative time the corresponding web page was displayed by the user's computer.