ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,471, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PODTRAC INC. (Alexandria, Va.).
"System and method for using a variable analysis window to produce statistics on downloadable media" was invented by Robert W. Freeland (Lithia, Fla.), Mark McCrery (Alexandria, Va.) and Jason Defontes (Towson, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention teaches a method for determining an accurate measure of unique download sessions in an environment where IP addresses are shared among multiple devices. According to a first preferred embodiment, the system of the present invention may analyze requested server log data to determine the number of un...