ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,995, issued on May 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Automated sequential site navigation" was invented by Robert Duke (Austin, Texas), Ryan Engle (Austin, Texas), Ryan Peck (Austin, Texas) and Jonathan Coon (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A website is navigated automatically in a sequential manner, for example by performing a series of specific network requests in a specified order, without necessarily using a browser, and without necessarily rendering each web page in the sequence. Interactions with a website are automatically recorded, stored, and analyzed. Requests and responses can be ass...