First-Party Cookie Serving Architecture for Cross-Site Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Digital advertising faces challenges in user identification and targeting due to limitations on third-party cookies, which restricts companies' ability to deliver personalized experiences while ensuring privacy, and relies heavily on third-party data collection, leading to increased costs and reliance on external agencies.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that embeds pixels in digital content, such as web advertisements and emails, to capture user impressions and actions by treating cookies as first-party cookies when users interact with the company's domain, allowing for data storage and analysis, thereby enabling targeted advertising and reducing reliance on third-party data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If third-party cookies are used for user identification and tracking, then cross-site tracking and targeted advertising capability is improved, but reliance on external agencies and increased costs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses first-party cookies as an intermediary mechanism to enable cross-site tracking without relying on third-party cookie services. By implementing a cookie serving architecture that works consistently across browsers and platforms using first-party cookies, the system achieves cross-site tracking capability while eliminating dependence on external third-party data collection agencies
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables websites to build their own robust cookie serving architecture using first-party cookies, allowing them to independently perform user identification and tracking without relying on external third-party services. This self-service approach reduces costs and eliminates the need to outsource data collection to external agencies
2Object-affected harmful factors
If third-party cookies are limited or removed, then user privacy is improved, but user identification and targeting capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of cookie ownership from third-party to first-party. By using first-party cookies that are set and managed by the website operator itself, the system maintains user identification accuracy while improving privacy protection, as first-party cookies are treated more favorably by browsers and users
3Measurement precision
If first-party cookie architecture is implemented, then data privacy and user identification accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal first-party cookie serving architecture that performs multiple functions: user identification, cross-site tracking, targeted advertising, and data management. By consolidating these functions into a single architecture that works consistently across browsers and platforms, the system manages complexity while achieving improved user identification accuracy
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AI summary
A computer server includes processor and memory hardware. The processor hardware executes instructions including parsing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a first user agent to identify a first data object matching a set of characteristics and generating a new data element based on the HTTP request. The instructions include, in response to the first data object being present: extracting a first set of serialized data elements and serializing them with the new data element to generate a second data object. The instructions include, in response to the first data object being absent and a user associated with the first user agent being identifiable: determining a second set of serialized data elements based on an identity of the user, and serializing them with the new data element to generate the second data object. The instructions include transmitting an HTTP response including the second data object.