Patent Document ID: 9117240
Application ID: 14534087

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving first activity information for a sender of a message to at least one recipient by a collection resource at a Web site, wherein the message comprises text associated with the Web site, the collection resource adds a first link to the message, and no personally identifiable information of the sender is collected in collecting the first activity information; storing the first activity information at a storage server; receiving second activity information when a recipient accesses the first link sent by the sender corresponding to the first activity information stored at the storage server, wherein no personally identifiable information of the recipient is collected in collecting the second activity information; using at least one processor, attempting to identify a first node representative of the sender in a social graph; and when a first node representative of the sender in a social graph is not identified and after receiving the second activity information, creating a second node to represent the sender in the social graph.

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Claim 23:
23. The method of claim 1 wherein the first link comprises a shortened uniform resource locator.