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This disclosure relates generally to customer engagement. More particularly, embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved building and controlling contextual visitor engagement, including automatic element detection, element mapping, and rule building for various types of engagements, such as sales, marketing, and service engagements.
Engaging web site visitors in a timely manner with the correct customer engagement (e.g., presenting a discount offer on a product to a web site visitor who has shown interest in the product; extending an invitation to a web site visitor to chat with a sales agent, technical support, subject matter expert, etc.; providing additional related information on a product, etc.) has been proven to result in an increase in sales as well as overall customer satisfaction.
Some existing approaches to customer engagement rely on rules to determine when, how, and with whom to engage. For example, specific engagement rules may be built and used by a web server hosting a web site to determine whether to engage a web site visitor based upon information known about the visitor or based upon the visitor's behavior on the web site. This may be done by tracking a number of times a visitor has been to a web site, their flow through the web site, the length of time they've been on a particular web page or the web site, or an action they took while visiting the web site, such as downloading a white paper from the web site. Once a predetermined criterion or threshold defined in an engagement rule (which may be stored in a rules database at the server side) has been met, the web site visitor may be presented (e.g., by the server via a user interface on a client device) with an invitation to chat with a representative of the web site.
With prior approaches to customer engagement, engagement rules may also be defined for a web site to provide some kind of engagement offer(s) to a web site visitor based on specific information known about the web site visitor such as their “status,” products in their shopping cart, or cart value. Like the engagement rules, such engagement offers are often predetermined and stored at the server side and selected for presentation to a web site visitor in real time based on non-contextual information about the web site visitor such as the number of visits by the web site visitor, the length of time the web site visitor has spent on a web page, etc. Contextual information from the web page may have no impact on the web site server's decision to engage the web site visitor.
Furthermore, building engagement rules often requires web site administrators to have technical expertise in web site technologies, including authoring languages such as the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) used to create documents on the World Wide Web and style sheet languages such as the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. For example, to create an engagement rule for a web page, a web site administrator would need to be able to read and understand the source code for the web page, which may be written in HTML or another markup language, and know how to write CSS selectors to implement the engagement rule, with the understanding the limitations of CSS (e.g., there is currently no way to name a CSS rule, so it is not possible to create client-side scripts that refer to CSS rules). As such, building site rules can be an extremely technical, tedious, and error-prone process.
Embodiments disclosed herein include a novel contextual site visitor engagement building tool (also referred to herein as a context tool) useful for mapping page elements and/or building site rules in context of mapped page elements in an efficient, user-friendly manner. Mappings created using embodiments disclosed herein can be used to build site rules. In some embodiments, a client-side decision engine may evaluate site rules and determine when and how to engage with a user such as a web site visitor.
In some embodiments, a method for mapping elements of a web page may begin when a user directs a browser application running on a computing device to enter into an in-context element mapping mode. The browser application may have an element mapping module already downloaded and/or installed, responsive to the user's earlier instruction. In some embodiments, the element mapping module may be implemented as a bookmarklet running within the browser application. The bookmarklet or code implementing the element mapping module may be obtained, in some embodiments, as part of the context tool, from a server communicatively connected to the computing device.
In some embodiments, in the in-context element mapping mode, the element mapping module may operate to identify page elements on the web page that have been defined and that are eligible for mapping. In some embodiments, this may be done by the element mapping module querying a server at the backend (e.g., an element mapper server), with a universal resource locator (URL) for the web page, to obtain a list of page elements on the web page that have been defined (i.e., have selectors such as CSS selectors either automatically or manually generated).
In response, the server may send a list of defined page elements for the particular web page. The element mapping module may identify those defined page elements on the web page by styling them differently from undefined page elements (i.e., page elements that do not yet have selectors). This way, the user can easily, visually, and quickly identify page elements that can be mapped in the in-context element mapping mode.
In some embodiments, responsive to the user interacting with a page element, the element mapping module may highlight, or otherwise further style, that page element to visually distinguish the page element of interest from other page elements eligible for mapping. When a page element is selected, the element mapping module may generate and provide a popup window or dialog with an input field near the page element of interest or as part of the web page.
In some embodiments, the element mapping module may automatically generate a name for the page element of interest based on page element data containing the page element of interest and display the automatically generated name in the input field. In some embodiments, the automatically generated name can be edited or otherwise modified by the user.
In some embodiments, the element mapping module may, based on a user-provided or automatically generated name for the page element of interest, generate a mapping output associating the user-provided or automatically generated name with the page element of interest. The mapping output may be persisted in association with a selector for the page element of interest.
In some embodiments, a mapping output thus generated by the element mapping module may be used to create or modify a site rule. In some embodiments, a site rule tool may be provided on a web page for creating or editing a site rule using a mapping output in context of a page element of interest displayed on the web page. In this way, an administrator of a web site does not need to be a programmer or a technical person to map and/or utilize elements of a web page.
Site rules thus generated can have many practical applications. As an example, a site rule may be used by a client-side decision engine to generate and present, in real time, a proactive chat invitation when a web site visitor selects a specific value from a list or menu. As another example, a site rule may specify when to initiate a contextual engagement with a web site visitor in real time, for instance, responsive to the web site visitor entering a value over a specific amount in a text field. As yet another example, a site rule may be used by a web site for determining, retrieving, and offering information from a knowledgebase that is targeted to a name of a product displayed on a web site visitor's screen.
Those skilled in the art appreciate that embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in various ways. For example, one embodiment may comprise a system comprising at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores computer instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform a method substantially as described herein. In some implementations, at least a portion of the system may be included as part of an application (e.g., a browser application, a mobile application, a tablet application, etc.) on various types of computing devices including, but are not limited to, desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, mobile computing devices such as personal digital assists, smartphones, etc. Another embodiment may comprise a computer program product having at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores computer instructions translatable by at least one processor to perform a method substantially as described herein. Numerous other embodiments are also possible.
Embodiments disclosed herein can provide many advantages. For example, mapping page elements in embodiments disclosed herein is uniquely non-technical and does not require an administrator to identify every conceivable location on a web site where a contextual engagement element may appear. Rather, the administrator can identify a product on one page of the web site and a user-friendly name can be mapped to the product, for instance, on every page of the web site (assuming the underlying technical structure of the page remains consistent). Such a mapping can be made available, via a site rule, to a decision engine. This eliminates the complexity of having the administrator to do the coding to map page elements to CSS selectors and eliminates the need for them to understand the CSS selector code in order to build site rules. Disclosed therefore is a vastly superior solution compared to the existing technically complicated and labor-intensive methods such as those involving writing regular expressions to create engagement rules.
These, and other, aspects of the disclosure will be better appreciated and understood when considered in conjunction with the following description and the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, that the following description, while indicating various embodiments of the disclosure and numerous specific details thereof, is given by way of illustration and not of limitation. Many substitutions, modifications, additions and/or rearrangements may be made within the scope of the disclosure without departing from the spirit thereof, and the disclosure includes all such substitutions, modifications, additions and/or rearrangements.
The drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification are included to depict certain aspects of the invention. A clearer impression of the invention, and of the components and operation of systems provided with the invention, will become more readily apparent by referring to the exemplary, and therefore non-limiting, embodiments illustrated in the drawings, wherein identical reference numerals designate the same components. Note that the features illustrated in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale.
The invention and the various features and advantageous details thereof are explained more fully with reference to the non-limiting embodiments that are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and detailed in the following description. Descriptions of well-known starting materials, processing techniques, components and equipment are omitted so as not to unnecessarily obscure the invention in detail. It should be understood, however, that the detailed description and the specific examples, while indicating some embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only and not by way of limitation. Various substitutions, modifications, additions and/or rearrangements within the spirit and/or scope of the underlying inventive concept will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this disclosure.
Before discussing example embodiments of the invention, a hardware architecture where embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented is described.
Each of client computer 12 and server computer 16 is an example of a data processing system. ROM 122 and 162, RAM 124 and 164, HD 126 and 166, and database 18 include non-transitory computer-readable media that can be read by CPU 120 and/or 160. ROM 122 and 162, RAM 124 and 164, HD 126 and 166, and/or database 18 may be internal or external to computers 12 and 16.
Embodiments described herein may be implemented in suitable software code residing on ROM 122 or 162, RAM 124 or 164, and/or HD 126 or 166. In addition, instructions containing software code elements implementing an embodiment of the invention disclosed herein may be embodied on a data storage device having a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. As an example,
As those skilled in the art can appreciate, web sites on the World Wide Web today are usually built using a markup language such as the hypertext markup language (HTML) or the extensible markup language (XML). Documents written in a markup language (e.g., HTML) for a web site are delivered, for instance, by a web server to a web browser running on a client device. To display a web page, the web browser parses a received HTML document containing the source code for the web page into what is known as the document object model (DOM) internal representation and performs on this internal model to render the web page on a screen, running JavaScript whenever is needed, as dictated by the source code for the web page.
A page element refers to an individual component of a web page that has been parsed into the DOM. Take HTML, for example, HTML documents contain tags, but do not contain page elements. Page elements are only generated after the parsing step, from tags contained in the HTML documents. In the HTML syntax, most page elements are written with a start tag and an end tag, with the content in between, if any. In some cases (e.g., HTML parsing using a document type definition (DTD)), it is not possible to infer page elements from document tags alone. In such cases, a standard generalized markup language (SGML) or HTML aware parser with knowledge of the DTD must be used. The DTD specifies which element types are possible (i.e., it defines a set of element types that make up the HTML document) and also specifies what valid combinations may appear in the HTML document.
Along with HTML and JavaScript, most web sites use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to describe the presentation, including layout, colors, and fonts, of a document written in a markup language, separate from the content of the document. Multiple HTML documents can share formatting information by specifying formatting instructions for each matching page element in a separate .css file. While this separation of content and presentation can reduce complexity and repetition in rendering the HTML documents, CSS and other style sheet languages alike can be very complex and difficult to use.
In CSS, selectors are used to declare to which part of a markup document a style applies by matching tags and attributes in the markup document. For example, selectors may apply to all elements of a specific type; to elements specified by an attribute (e.g., an identifier unique within the markup document or a class that can annotate multiple elements in the markup document); and to elements related to one another in a document tree. Using CSS selectors requires the knowledge and understanding of CSS syntax, rules, classes, pseudo-classes, declaration, inheritance, etc. Other types of selectors likewise require programming knowledge and/or skills. As such, building a web site or even a rule for the web site usually requires custom coding and testing by highly technical personnel such as a software developer.
As discussed above, an object of this disclosure is to provide a context-aware solution that enables even a non-technical person to easily identify page elements corresponding to portions or areas displayed on a (rendered) web page and be able to provide relevant, “in-context” information (e.g., a product description for an image of a product) for potential contextual engagement with web site visitors of the web page. A context can be considered a container or a data structure storing contextual information relative to a page element, a set of page element, a web page, or a web site). A context may provide a current state or measure in which a web site visitor is in, at a particular location on a particular web page at a particular time, including what they select, what data they enter, etc. This context-aware solution disclosed herein provides a mechanism for a user to associate site rules to page elements currently on a rendered web page so that they can take advantage of the state of the page elements when end users (e.g., web site visitors) interact with those page elements.
In some embodiments, this object can be achieved in a novel context tool that can be invoked within a web page (e.g., one that is part of an operational web site) for a user (e.g., a web site administrator) to map elements of the web page and/or define site rules for contextual engagement with end users such as web site visitors.
The context tool may be implemented in many ways. Some embodiments of a context tool may include an “in-context” mapping functionality embodied on an element mapping module (which is referred to herein as the “Element Mapper”) configured for mapping page elements of a rendered web page displayed on a computer with user-defined terms. In some embodiments, such an element mapper can be installed in a web browser as a special JavaScript program referred to as a bookmarklet. A bookmarklet is an unobtrusive script that can be stored in a web browser and that contains JavaScript commands to extend the web browser's functionality. Unlike an applet, however, bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks and are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page.
Referring to
In in-context element mapping mode 300, elements of the web page are displayed (e.g., a word, an icon, an image, a piece of content, a search field, or a particular location on the web page). This can be done by the Element Mapper querying a server (e.g., via one or more client-side script calls to server computer 16 of
To create a new mapping, the user may click on a “create element” button displayed on the GUI, mouse or hover over a page element of interest, and select the page element (e.g., by right-clicking a mouse key or clicking on a “select” button). Responsive to a page element being selected, a dialog with one or more input fields may be provided (e.g., displayed in a side bar or a pop up window near the page element of interest) to the user (310). The user can freely name a mapping to the page element of interest without needing to adhere to and/or understand the requirements of the underlying programming language. This mapping allows the association of a user-friendly (e.g., user-defined or automatically generated) term or name to an otherwise complicated technical address (e.g., via a CSS selector) of the page element on the web page. As described above, while such a selector can be useful in creating site rules, it is very difficult to understand.
The user may provide additional information relevant to the page element (e.g., a product description for an image of a product displayed at a particular location) for potential contextual engagement with end users such as web site visitors viewing the web page (e.g., when a web site visitor's pointing device selects or hovers over the particular location or page element). In some embodiments, multiple page elements may be selected at the same time.
In some embodiments, upon receiving an indication that the information entered by the user is to be saved, a mapping output (also referred to as a “mapping”) is automatically generated (315) and persisted in a data store (320). In some embodiments, each mapping associates information provided by a user and a selected page element or set of page elements reflecting an element space. Below is an example mapping output associating user-provided names “Product Title,” “Product Category,” and “Application Amount,” to various page elements:
The stored mappings can be used by other tools, for instance, to build site rules (325). Such site rules may be used, for example, by a decision engine to later reference page elements to pull content, present, and/or combine information for effective, timely, and contextual engagement with an end user such as a web site visitor. In some embodiments, the automatically generated mapping can associate a user-provided term or name for a page element to a CSS selector for the page element. This mapping shields the complexity of the CSS selector and allows a user with little or no programming knowledge to enter any text description for a page element that they deem appropriate (e.g., a non-technical term, nickname, or abbreviation for a product that is familiar to the user using the Element Mapper), which is then automatically assigned to or otherwise associated with the page element. Accordingly, embodiments can advantageously eliminate the need for web site administrators having to understand and/or know how to write page element selectors such as CSS selectors.
For example, as illustrated in
In some embodiments, page elements that have been mapped (e.g., page element 501 shown on web page 500) may be highlighted or otherwise styled in a manner that visually distinguishes from page elements that have not been mapped (e.g., page element 505). In some embodiments, this can be done by highlighting page elements using visually distinct overlays (e.g., translucent layers in different colors, shapes, sizes, or a combination thereof).
In some embodiments, highlighting can be done, for instance, by browser interface module 410 listening to mouse movement events communicated by a browser application running in in-context element mapping mode 300. Dialog or window 503 may indicate and/or provide information when in an in-context element mapping mode. Browser interface module 410 may identify page element(s) at location(s) under the pointer or cursor (e.g., by sending a set of coordinates of a location on the page to the browser application and receiving information concerning a page element at that location from the browser application) and generate a highlighting layer over the page element(s) thus identified. In some embodiments, clicking on or selecting a highlighted page element may cause the highlighted page element to be captured by user interface module 420 for creating or editing a mapping.
In some embodiments, by default, a set of characters (e.g., 25 characters) of a selected page element can be used by element mapping module 430 as a name or label for a new mapping.
The user experience described above with reference to
Initially, mapped element list 720 may be empty as none of the page elements of web page 700 (e.g., page title 751, menu items 755, or page content 750 including content item 705) may have been mapped. To create a mapping for a page element, the user may direct a pointer to the page element. When the pointer hovers over a page element, element mapper 701 may operate to highlight the page element (or, in some embodiments, multiple page elements), as explained above. This is further illustrated in
In the example of
As described above, in some embodiments, the user may not need to type anything at all in order to create a mapping for a page element. Rather, element mapper 701 may extract mapping details 740 from page element data provided by the browser application, determine name 735 for page element 730 (which, in this example, has been selected by a user), and present name 735 and mapping details 740 in dialog 733, as shown in
Some embodiments of a context tool may operate to automatically generate a string of text referred to as a selector using data from mapping details 740. In some embodiments, such a selector may conform to the CSS selector syntax and may be used by the context tool for locating and/or selecting page elements based on their identification, classes, types, attributes, values of attributes, and so on, as known to those skilled in the art. Unlike a conventional CSS selector, however, the selector disclosed herein can be automatically generated by the context tool as part of a process in creating a context corresponding to a particular page element.
Embodiments of a context tool can include additional functions accessible via a separate functional window overlaying a web page in an in-context element mapping mode. One example is illustrated in
In some embodiments, an administrator such as a web site administrator may be provided with a dashboard (e.g., dashboard 470 shown in
As shown in
As an example,
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In operation, a decision engine (e.g., decision engine 450 shown in
The decision engine can run continually, evaluating applicable site rules in real-time. The moment that a site rule evaluation indicates contextual engagement should be performed, a user (e.g., a web site visitor) can be engaged appropriately. This approach can result in an extremely fast initiation of an engagement, which can be crucial in situations where a web site visitor may be about to abandon the web site or, when implemented as part of an application on a mobile or tablet device, a user may be about to close or navigate away from the application (e.g., due to a poor experience, or receiving too many errors on a form).
Those skilled in the relevant art will appreciate that the invention can be implemented or practiced with other computer system configurations, including without limitation multi-processor systems, network devices, mini-computers, mainframe computers, data processors, and the like. The invention can be embodied in a special purpose computer or data processor that is specifically programmed, configured, or constructed to perform the functions described in detail herein. The invention can also be employed in distributed computing environments, where tasks or modules are performed by remote processing devices, which are linked through a communications network such as a LAN, WAN, and/or the Internet. In a distributed computing environment, program modules or subroutines may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices. These program modules or subroutines may, for example, be stored or distributed on computer-readable media, including magnetic and optically readable and removable computer discs, stored as firmware in chips, as well as distributed electronically over the Internet or over other networks (including wireless networks). Example chips may include Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) chips. Embodiments discussed herein can be implemented in suitable instructions that may reside on a non-transitory computer readable medium, hardware circuitry or the like, or any combination and that may be translatable by one or more server machines. Examples of a non-transitory computer readable medium are provided below in this disclosure.
ROM, RAM, and HD are computer memories for storing computer-executable instructions executable by the CPU or capable of being compiled or interpreted to be executable by the CPU. Suitable computer-executable instructions may reside on a computer readable medium (e.g., ROM, RAM, and/or HD), hardware circuitry or the like, or any combination thereof. Within this disclosure, the term “computer readable medium” is not limited to ROM, RAM, and HD and can include any type of data storage medium that can be read by a processor. Examples of computer-readable storage media can include, but are not limited to, volatile and non-volatile computer memories and storage devices such as random access memories, read-only memories, hard drives, data cartridges, direct access storage device arrays, magnetic tapes, floppy diskettes, flash memory drives, optical data storage devices, compact-disc read-only memories, and other appropriate computer memories and data storage devices. Thus, a computer-readable medium may refer to a data cartridge, a data backup magnetic tape, a floppy diskette, a flash memory drive, an optical data storage drive, a CD-ROM, ROM, RAM, HD, or the like.
The processes described herein may be implemented in suitable computer-executable instructions that may reside on a computer readable medium (for example, a disk, CD-ROM, a memory, etc.). Alternatively, the computer-executable instructions may be stored as software code components on a direct access storage device array, magnetic tape, floppy diskette, optical storage device, or other appropriate computer-readable medium or storage device.
Any suitable programming language can be used to implement the routines, methods or programs of embodiments of the invention described herein, including C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, or any other programming or scripting code, etc. Other software/hardware/network architectures may be used. For example, the functions of the disclosed embodiments may be implemented on one computer or shared/distributed among two or more computers in or across a network. Communications between computers implementing embodiments can be accomplished using any electronic, optical, radio frequency signals, or other suitable methods and tools of communication in compliance with known network protocols.
Different programming techniques can be employed such as procedural or object oriented. Any particular routine can execute on a single computer processing device or multiple computer processing devices, a single computer processor or multiple computer processors. Data may be stored in a single storage medium or distributed through multiple storage mediums, and may reside in a single database or multiple databases (or other data storage techniques). Although the steps, operations, or computations may be presented in a specific order, this order may be changed in different embodiments. In some embodiments, to the extent multiple steps are shown as sequential in this specification, some combination of such steps in alternative embodiments may be performed at the same time. The sequence of operations described herein can be interrupted, suspended, or otherwise controlled by another process, such as an operating system, kernel, etc. The routines can operate in an operating system environment or as stand-alone routines. Functions, routines, methods, steps and operations described herein can be performed in hardware, software, firmware or any combination thereof.
Embodiments described herein can be implemented in the form of control logic in software or hardware or a combination of both. The control logic may be stored in an information storage medium, such as a computer-readable medium, as a plurality of instructions adapted to direct an information processing device to perform a set of steps disclosed in the various embodiments. Based on the disclosure and teachings provided herein, a person of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate other ways and/or methods to implement the invention.
It is also within the spirit and scope of the invention to implement in software programming or code an of the steps, operations, methods, routines or portions thereof described herein, where such software programming or code can be stored in a computer-readable medium and can be operated on by a processor to permit a computer to perform any of the steps, operations, methods, routines or portions thereof described herein. The invention may be implemented by using software programming or code in one or more digital computers, by using application specific integrated circuits, programmable logic devices, field programmable gate arrays, optical, chemical, biological, quantum or nanoengineered systems, components and mechanisms may be used. The functions of the invention can be achieved by various means. For example, distributed, or networked systems, components and circuits can be used. In another example, communication or transfer (or otherwise moving from one place to another) of data may be wired, wireless, or by any other means.
A “computer-readable medium” may be any medium that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, system or device. The computer readable medium can be, by way of example only but not by limitation, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, system, device, propagation medium, or computer memory. Such computer-readable medium shall be machine readable and include software programming or code that can be human readable (e.g., source code) or machine readable (e.g., object code). Examples of non-transistory computer-readable media can include random access memories, read-only memories, hard drives, data cartridges, magnetic tapes, floppy diskettes, flash memory drives, optical data storage devices, compact-disc read-only memories, and other appropriate computer memories and data storage devices. In an illustrative embodiment, some or all of the software components may reside on a single server computer or on any combination of separate server computers. As one skilled in the art can appreciate, a computer program product implementing an embodiment disclosed herein may comprise one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer instructions translatable by one or more processors in a computing environment.
A “processor” includes any, hardware system, mechanism or component that processes data, signals or other information. A processor can include a system with a central processing unit, multiple processing units, dedicated circuitry for achieving functionality, or other systems. Processing need not be limited to a geographic location, or have temporal limitations. For example, a processor can perform its functions in “real-time,” “offline,” in a “batch mode,” etc. Portions of processing can be performed at different times and at different locations, by different (or the same) processing systems.
As used herein, the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes,” “including,” “has,” “having,” or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, product, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, product, article, or apparatus.
Furthermore, the term “or” as used herein is generally intended to mean “and/or” unless otherwise indicated. For example, a condition A or B is satisfied by any one of the following: A is true (or present) and B is false (or not present), A is false (or not present) and B is true (or present), and both A and B are true (or present). As used herein, a term preceded by “a” or “an” (and “the” when antecedent basis is “a” or “an”) includes both singular and plural of such term, unless clearly indicated otherwise (i.e., that the reference “a” or “an” clearly indicates only the singular or only the plural). Also, as used in the description herein, the meaning of “in” includes “in” and “on” unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. The scope of the present disclosure should be determined by the following claims and their legal equivalents.
This is a conversion of, and claims a benefit of priority from U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/089,680, filed Dec. 9, 2014, entitled “AUTOMATIC CONTEXTUAL SITE VISITOR ENGAGEMENT ELEMENT DETECTION AND RULE BUILDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS,” which is fully incorporated by reference herein, including its appendix. This application relates to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/819,043, filed Aug. 5, 2015, entitled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLIENT-SIDE CONTEXTUAL ENGAGEMENT,” which is a conversion of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/033,497, filed Aug. 5, 2014, both of which are fully incorporated by reference herein.
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