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) 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007