Appeal No. 2006-1055
Application No. 09/752,355
The invention pertains to tracking the actions of an
Internet user. Specifically, data is loaded from transaction
logs of Internet servers across plural parallel processing
modules of a database system with the transaction log data
including an entry for each request to the Internet server,
including information that identifies which user submitted the
request and the time at which the request was received by the
Internet server.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for use in tracking the actions of an Internet
user, the method comprising:
loading data from one or more transaction logs of one or
more Internet servers across plural parallel processing modules
of a database system, where the data includes an entry for each
request to the Internet server, including information identifying
which user submitted the request and information identifying the
time at which the request was received; and
executing a database query across the parallel processing
modules to select from the data all entries associated with a
particular user and corresponding to a single session of that
user.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Tsuchida et al. (Tsuchida) 6,026,394 Feb. 15, 2000
Muret et al. (Muret) 2002/0042821 Apr. 11, 2002
(eff. filing date Oct. 4, 1999)
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