Resource-based action attribution

摘要

A system of resource-based action attribution provides a mechanism for tracking actions performed on a resource shared among multiple users of a resource sharing system, whether the users are authenticated within the resource sharing system or not. The tracking mechanism may allow users to track identifying information of other users who perform actions (e.g., editing actions) on the shared resource. A user can access a resource by providing a resource identifier and/or an access credential associated with the resource. The user's actions on the resource can be associated with an invitee identifier (e.g., an email address) that is associated in memory with the resource identifier and/or the access credential.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
associating, in a memory location, an invitee identifier with a resource identifier, the invitee identifier including a user identifier identifying an existing account external of a resource sharing system and not identifying an existing account of the resource sharing system; authenticating an access credential in association with the invitee identifier; providing access to a resource identified by the resource identifier and hosted by a server within the resource sharing system, the access provided responsive to the associating operation and based on the authentication of the access credential associated with the invitee identifier; detecting performance of an editing action associated with the invitee identifier and on the accessed resource; and responsive to detection of the performance of the editing action, recording, via a hardware processing unit, attribution data in association with the accessed resource, wherein the attribution data refers to the editing action and includes at least the invitee identifier in association with the editing action, the attribution data including a user identifier internal to the resource sharing system, the internal user identifier identifying a user with permission to invite another user to access the resource, the attribution data further including at least one history record designating the internal user identifier and another action performed on the identified resource.