SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOKIE-BASED BROWSER IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING.

摘要

The present invention provides a system and method to identify unique browsers (Agents) communicating to the client. Every new browser communicating through the client is assigned a unique Agent ID that is stored in the browser's cookie cache. When the browser sends a request, the cookie may have the Agent ID to identify the browser to the client. If the cookie with the Agent ID is not present, then the client will return a re-direction response to a common URL with the domain having the cookie with the Agent ID to identify the unique browser. Another re-direction takes place back to the browser to make the request with the original URL, but this time has the cookie with the Agent ID to identify the unique browser.