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US07680892B2 Method and system for monitoring email and website behavior of an email recipient
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用于监控电子邮件收件人的电子邮件和网站行为的方法和系统
- 专利标题: Method and system for monitoring email and website behavior of an email recipient
- 专利标题(中): 用于监控电子邮件收件人的电子邮件和网站行为的方法和系统
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申请号: US11530814申请日: 2006-09-11
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公开(公告)号: US07680892B2公开(公告)日: 2010-03-16
- 发明人: Andrew Knox , Lars Knox , John Hart
- 申请人: Andrew Knox , Lars Knox , John Hart
- 申请人地址: US CA San Francisco
- 专利权人: Ihance, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Ihance, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA San Francisco
- 代理机构: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
- 代理商 Gerald T. Gray
- 主分类号: G06F15/16
- IPC分类号: G06F15/16
摘要:
A system for monitoring email and website behavior of an email recipient is provided. According to one exemplary embodiment, the system includes a mail enhancement server and a logging server. The mail enhancement server is configured to intercept all outgoing emails from a mail server. The mail enhancement server then modifies each outgoing email to include a tracking code. The tracking code is embedded in an image call which in turn is also inserted into the outgoing email. If the outgoing email contains hyperlinks, each hyperlink is also modified to include the tracking code. The tracking code is uniquely associated with the outgoing email. The image call (and the tracking code) is used to detect when the recipient of the outgoing email has opened that email. The tracking code, when embedded in a hyperlink, is also used to monitor whether the recipient has opened the email and/or clicked through on one or more of the hyperlinks in the email. The logging server associates a cookie with the recipient of the outgoing email. When the logging server receives an image call, the corresponding image and the cookie are concurrently delivered to the recipient. The cookie is used to monitor the behavior of the recipient at a website, regardless of how the recipient arrives at that website, be it through a click-through from the email or otherwise. The logging server is configured to capture and store relevant information relating to the outgoing email thereby allowing the sender of the outgoing email and the recipient to be linked and the behavior of the recipient to be monitored via the tracking code, the image call and the cookie.
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