Patent Grant
10102502
When companies are looking to hire a new employee for a job, they encourage their employees and third parties (e.g., recruiters) to tell people they know to apply for the job. Companies often use a referral bonus as an incentive for this behavior. However, when an individual applies for a job, the company must rely on ad hoc systems to determine who referred the individual so that the company can pay the referral bonus to the appropriate employee or third party. This is a non-trivial process as companies are typically not able to track how and by whom the job was referred to the individual who applied for the job.
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method, the method including receiving a first request to display a first web page at a first URL from a first client system, where the first client system is used by a first target, where the first URL is associated with a first job at a first company, the first target, and a first communication channel, and where the first target is a job candidate, providing to the first client system, in response to the first request, the first web page associated with the first URL, where the first web page comprises a description of the first job, and a first link to a first applicant tracking system (ATS), receiving, from the first client system, a request for a web page corresponding to the first job from the first ATS, wherein the request is initiated by selection of the first link, making a first determination that the first ATS is a third party ATS, and in response to the first determination: generating a third party referral URL, where the third party referral URL comprises a first domain name associated with the first ATS, a first unique identifier associated with the first job, an identifier associated with the first communication channel, a first identifier associated with a first source type, where the first source type identifies a referral entity that informed the first target about the first job, and providing the third party referral URL to the first client system.
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system. The system include a referral tracking service configured to receive a request to display a web page at a URL from a client system, wherein the client system is used by a target, wherein the URL is associated with a job at a company, the target, and a communication channel, and wherein the target is a job candidate, provide to the client system, in response to the request, the web page associated with the URL, wherein the web page comprises a description of the job, and a link to an applicant tracking system (ATS), receive, from the client system, a request for a web page corresponding to the job from the ATS, wherein the request is initiated by selection of the link, make a determination that the ATS is a third party ATS, and in response to the determination, send a request to a URL generation service to generate a third party referral URL. The system further includes the URL generation service configured to receive the request to generate the third party referral URL, generate the third party referral URL, wherein the third party referral URL comprises a domain name associated with the ATS, a unique identifier associated with the job, an identifier associated with the communication channel, an identifier associated with a source type, wherein the source type identifies a referral entity that informed the target about the job, and provide the third party referral URL to client system. The system further includes a data transfer service configured to obtain applicant data from the ATS, wherein the applicant data comprises data entered by the target during a job application process for the job by the target and data entered by the company during the application process for the job by the target, transmit the applicant data to a database, and the database comprising applicant data, wherein the database is accessible to the referral tracking service, the URL referral service, and the data transfer service.
Specific embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying figures. Like elements in the various figures are denoted by like reference numerals for consistency.
In the following detailed description of embodiments of the invention, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the invention. However, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in detail to avoid unnecessarily complicating the description.
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for source tracking More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to tracking job referral across sourcing systems and applicant tracking systems. One or more embodiments of the invention enable the transfer to source tracking information from a sourcing system to one or more applicant tracking systems. Further, embodiments of the invention enable the transfer of applicant data from applicant tracking systems to one or more source systems.
In one embodiment of the invention, the source system (100) corresponds to one or more computer systems that include software and/or hardware to perform one or more of the following: (i) identify job candidates and/or referral entities, (ii) communicate job messages and broadcast job messages to the job candidates and/or referral entities, (iii) tracking how jobs are referred between job candidates and/or referral entities, (iv) generate referral universal resource locators (URLs) to ATSs (102, 104); and (v) receive applicant data from ATSs (102, 104). In one embodiment of the invention, the source system (100) (or components therein) include functionality to perform the methods shown in
In one embodiment of the invention, an ATS (102, 104) corresponds to one or more computer systems configured to track a job candidate through the job application process. More specifically, the ATS (102, 104) may track which job candidates applied for which jobs, how far the job candidate progressed in each job application process, and how the company that was offering the job rated the job candidate. In one embodiment of the invention, the information tracked or otherwise stored by the ATS (102, 104) is collectively referred to as applicant data.
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In one embodiment of the invention, the data transfer service (108) is a web service configured to obtain applicant data from the third party ATS (102), normalize the applicant data, and provide the normalized applicant data to the database(s) (106) used by the source system (100). In one embodiment of the invention, the data transfer service (108) is implemented using well known web service architectures. In one embodiment of the invention, there may be one data transfer service for each third party ATS (102), one data transfer service for multiple third party ATSs (102), or one data transfer service for all third party ATSs (102).
In one embodiment of the invention, a job candidate (110) may be any individual that receives a job message or broadcast job message, who is qualified to apply for the job. In one embodiment of the invention, a referral entity (112) is any individual that receives a job message or broadcast job message for a job and then forwards the job (via a job message or broadcast job message) to another user. The individual that receives a job message or broadcast job message from a referral entity may be a job candidate, a referral entity, or both. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that a single individual may act as both a job candidate and a referral-entity for a particular job. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that a single individual may act as a job candidate for particular jobs and a referral entity for other jobs.
Examples of referral entities may include, but are not limited to, recruiters hired by the company offering the job, employees of the company offering the job, individuals in a user's social network (i.e., the social network of the individual who is creating the original job message/broadcast job message or the social network of the individual who has received a job message/broadcast job message for a job and is forwarding), or any other individual that creates a job message/broadcast job message.
In one embodiment of the invention, jobs are communicated to job candidates and/or referral entities via job messages or broadcast job messages. In one embodiment of the invention, each job message specifies a job and is associated with a sender, a recipient, and a communication channel (described in
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention is not limited to the implementation shown in
In one embodiment of the invention, the service front-end (114) includes functionality to interface with job candidates and referral entities via one or more client systems (not shown). In one embodiment of the invention, a client system corresponds to a remote system configured to interface with the service front-end (114). The client system may be a mobile device (e.g., smart phone tablet computer, laptop, etc.) or any non-mobile computer device (e.g., desktop, etc.) with functionality to enable the job candidate and/or referral entity to interface with the service front-end (114). Such functionality may include, but is not limited to, a web browser or standalone application along with hardware and/or software necessary to communicate with the service front-end.
In one embodiment of the invention, the service front-end is implemented as a web-server configured to serve web pages to the client system and to receive input from the client system via the client's web browser and/or a standalone application on the client system. In one embodiment of the invention, if the client system is executing a web browser to interface with the service front-end, then the service front-end includes the web pages to send to the client system(s). Upon receipt of input from the client system, the service front-end is configured to extract and, if necessary, modify the input prior to sending the input to one or more services shown in
In one embodiment of the invention, the referral tracking service (120) is configured to track how job messages and broadcast job messages are propagated over the various communication channels. In one embodiment of the invention the job message service (118) is configured to create job messages and broadcast job messages. Once created, the job message service forwards the job messages and/or broadcast job messages to the channel interface engine (116). In one embodiment of the invention the channel interface engine (116) includes functionality to send or otherwise communicate the job message or broadcast job message on the communication channel specified in the job message or broadcast job message. In one embodiment of the invention, a communication channel refers to any service and/or social network that supports the communication of job messages and/or broadcast job messages to job candidates (110 in
In one embodiment of the invention, the URL referral service (124) is configured to generate referral URLs, namely, third party referral URLs and integrated referral URLs. In one embodiment of the invention, third party referral URLs are used to redirect job candidates to third party ATSs and integrated referral URLs are used to redirect job candidates to the integrated ATS. Additional details about the URL referral service are described in
In one embodiment of the invention the analytics engine (122) includes functionality to analyze the records in the common database to determine, for example, the source of a given job applicant (i.e., who should get credit for referring the job applicant), the job referral path for a given job applicant (i.e., the chain of job messages and/or broadcast job messages from the original sender to the job applicant), and effectiveness of the various communication channels used to communicate with job candidates and/or referral entities. In one embodiment of the invention, an analytics database (126) is configured to store the results generated by the analytics engine.
In one embodiment of the invention, the application database (134) includes application records (206). The content of the application records is described below in
In one embodiment of the invention, the databases (106) may be implemented using any persistent data storage device and/or technology including, but not limited to, magnetic storage, and solid state storage. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention is not limited to the implementation shown in
In addition, each job message is associated with a job message record (200) and each broadcast job message is associated with a broadcast job message record (212). Each job message record (200) is associated with a message record (202) and two user records (210) (i.e., a sender and a target) and each broadcast job message record (212) is associated with a message record (202) and a single user record (210) (i.e., a sender). Each message record (202) is associated with a single user record (210) and a job record (204). Finally, each message view record (208) is associated with a single user record (210) and a single message record (202). In one embodiment of the invention, the various records are associated with each other using the corresponding record IDs. The content of each of these records is discussed below.
In one embodiment of the invention, the rating (334) specifies one or more of the following: (i) not rated; (ii) not qualified; (iii) under qualified; (iv) maybe; (v) good; (vi) preferred; (vii) over qualified; or (viii) not interested. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that other rating schemes may be used and that the invention is not limited to the aforementioned rating scheme. In one embodiment of the invention, the stage (336) may specify one or more of the following: (i) applied and not interviewed, (ii) phone interview and no match, (iii) in-person interview and no match, (iv) offer declined, and (v) hired. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that other schemes may be used to describe the various job application stages and that the invention is not limited to the aforementioned scheme.
In step 302, the target for the job is selected. In one embodiment of the invention, the user selects a job candidate, a referral-entity, or a group of job candidates or referral-entities (e.g., all individuals following the user's TWITTER feed, all graduates of a particular university, all individuals with a particular skill set living in a particular area, etc.).
In one embodiment of the invention, the job message service is configured to provide recommendations of targets to the user. In one embodiment of the invention, the job message service may recommend an employee of the company that is offering the job as a target. Such a recommendation may be based on, for example, (i) employee's past activities with respect to forwarding job messages/broadcast job messages, e.g., employee has previously forwarded job messages/broadcast job messages they have received, employee has previously forwarded job messages/broadcast job message to job candidates that have applied for the job; (ii) employee's social network, e.g., employee has large social network, employee has social network with job candidates that are a good match for the job, etc.; and (iii) employee's relationship to a job candidate, e.g., went to the same university (or other educational institution), job candidate is in social network of the employee, etc. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the employee recommendation, as described above, is used to identify employees that can act as referral entities.
In one embodiment of the invention, the job message service may recommend a recruiter. Such a recommendation may be based on, for example, (i) recruiter's past activities with respect to forwarding job messages/broadcast job messages, e.g., recruiter has previously forwarded job messages/broadcast job messages they have received, recruiter has previously forwarded job messages/broadcast job message to job candidates that have applied for the job; (ii) recruiter's social network, e.g., recruiter has large social network, recruiter has social network with job candidates that are a good match for the job, etc.; and (iii) recruiter's relationship to a job candidate, e.g., went to the same university (or other educational institution), job candidate is in social network of the employee, etc. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the recruiter recommendation, as described above, is used to identify recruiters that can act as referral entities.
In one embodiment of the invention, the user may also receive a recommendation based on their own social network contacts (e.g., FACEBOOK friends, LINKEDIN connections, TWITTER followers, TWITTER feeds user is following, GOOGLE+ contacts, etc.). Such a recommendation may be based on, for example, (i) social network contact's past activities with respect to forwarding job messages/broadcast job messages, e.g., social network contact has previously forwarded job messages/broadcast job messages they have received, social network contact has previously forwarded job messages/broadcast job message to job candidates that have applied for the job; (ii) size of social network contact's social network; (iii) social network contact's relationship to a job candidate, e.g., went to the same university (or other educational institution), job candidate is in social network of the employee, etc; (iv) social network contact being a good match for the job based on the location of the job; (v) social network contact being a good match for the job based on the title of the job and the social network contact's current job title; and/or (vii) social network contact being a good match for the job based on the job description and the social network contact's current skill set (as determined using, for example, social network contact's profile on one or more social networks).
In one embodiment of the invention, the user may also receive recommendations for a given job candidate based on how the job candidate performed in the job application process of a similar job. In this embodiment, information in the application record(s) and the job record(s) may be used to identify similar jobs to the job identified in Step 300 as well as how the job candidate performed in the job application process for the similar job.
In one embodiment of the invention, the user may receive recommendations for job candidates based on information about the job candidates in the profile records, education records, work history records, and skills records. In particular, the characteristics of the job (for example obtained from the corresponding job record) may be used to identify potential job candidates in the user database.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that recommendations of employees and/or social network contacts in step 302 may be based on information obtained from one or more of the databases shown in
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In step 306, a unique URL is generated. In step 308, the URL generated in step 306 is associated with a sender (i.e., the user that is sending the job message), the job (as defined in the corresponding job record), and the communication channel. Further, if the job is sent in a job message (as opposed to broadcast job message), then the URL is also associated with the target.
In step 310, a web page for the job is generated. In one embodiment of the invention, the content for the web page is at least, in part, obtained from the corresponding job record. In one embodiment of the invention, the web page includes an apply link that a job candidate may select to apply for the job. When the URL associated with the apply link is selected, the source system may perform the method shown in
In step 312, the job message or broadcast job message is generated (depending on the target selected in Step 302 and/or the communication channel selected in Step 304). In one embodiment of the invention, generating the job message includes generating the corresponding records (as described in
Continuing with
In one embodiment of the invention, when a job message or broadcast job message for a job is sent to a target, job messages and/or broadcast job messages may be automatically generated and sent to: (i) all employees of the company that is offering the job; (ii) a subset of employees of the company that is offering the job (e.g., all employees in a department, all employees in a location, all employees in a region, another defined subset of employees, or any combination thereof); or (iii) specific employees of the company.
In embodiment of the invention, the user obtain a URL (per Step 306, 308) which is associated with a web page (per Step 310). The user may then include the URL in any communication channel of their choosing without necessarily performing (or having the system perform steps 312 and 314.
In step 318, the link in the job message or broadcast job message is selected (or clicked) by the target (or another entity that has received the job message or broadcast job message). For example, the intended target may have forwarded the job message or broadcast job message in a manner that is not tracked by the referral tracking system.
In step 320, the web page associated with the URL within the link is presented in the web browser (or another application capable of presenting web pages) for the individual that selected the link to view in Step 318. In one embodiment of the invention, the referral tracking service includes functionality to obtain the web page based on the URL within the link. In one embodiment of the invention, a message view record is created for each user that views the web page. Further, the message view record may be created and/or updated by the job referral service. In one embodiment of the invention, in Step 320, the individual viewing the webpage may also be promoted to create a profile in the source system, where the profile may include information necessary to create a user record (see
In step 322, a determination is made about whether the individual viewing the web page wishes to forward a job message or broadcast job message to a job candidate, a referral-entity, a group of job candidates or referral-entities, or any combination thereof. If the individual viewing the web page wishes to forward a job message or broadcast job message, the process proceeds to Step 302 in
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In Step 330, the source system determines whether the company that posted the job is using an integrated ATS (104 in
In Step 332, the third party ATS URL, the job ID, the source type, the source detail, and the communication channel are obtained. More specifically, in one embodiment of the invention, the third party ATS URL may be obtained from the Job Record. Further, the job ID, the source type and source detail may be obtained from the application record (which was created in Step 328) and the communication channel information may be obtained from the corresponding job message record or broadcast job message record that the target (or another entity that has received the job message or broadcast job message) received in Step 316. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the source type, source detail, and communication channel may be obtained from other records than those listed above without departing from the invention.
In one embodiment of the invention, the source type identifies a referral entity that informs the first target about the job. Examples of referral entities may include, but are not limited to, an employee at the company offering the job, hiring manager at the company offering the job, an agency hired by the company to locate job candidates for the job, an agency hired by the company to advertise the job, a recruiter hired by the company to locate job candidates for the job, a job board used by the company to advertise the job, or other source (which may be used to cover all other source types not covered by the other source type categories). In one embodiment of the invention, the “other source” may be used to cover the scenario described above in which the user obtained a URL (per steps 306, 308) and directly posts the URL at a location of her choice.
In one embodiment of the invention, the source detail identifies instances of the source type. For example, if the source type was an employee, then the source detail may be an employee name or employee ID. In another example, if the source type is a job board, then the source detail may be the name of the job board.
In one embodiment of the invention, the communication channel corresponds to the channel over which the job message or broadcast job message the target (or another entity that has received the job message or broadcast job message) received in Step 316. Examples of communication channels may include but are not limited to, email, FACEBOOK wall post, FACEBOOK status update, FACEBOOK direct message, TWITTER status update, TWITTER direct message, LINKEDIN status update, LINKEDIN direct message, and LINKEDIN group post.
In Step 334, a third party referral URL is generated using the source type, source detail, and communication channel. In one embodiment of the invention, the communication channel is not required to generate the third party referral URL. In such cases, the communication channel is not obtained in Step 332 and is not used in step 334.
The following are two examples of third party referral URLs in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The examples are not intended to limit the invention.
http://abccareers.com/job123.html&stp=employee&sdt1=John+Smith&jvc=facebook_wall_post.
The third party referral URL in example 1 includes the following information: (i) the third party ATS is located at http://abccareers.com (referred to as the third party ATS URL) (which may be obtained from the corresponding job record); (ii) the job ID is job123; (iii) the source type is employee; (iv) the source detail identifies the employee as John Smith, and (v) the communication channel is a FACEBOOK wall post. From the above information in the URL, the third party ATS can ascertain that John Smith, an employee of the company offering job 123, sent a broadcast job message to FACEBOOK wall post and that the job candidate selected the link in the job message to trigger the method in
http://abccareers.com/job123.html&stp=job board&sdt1=Monster
The third party referral URL in example 2 includes the following information: (i) the third party ATS is located at http://abccareers.com (which may be obtained from the corresponding job record); (ii) the job ID is job123; (iii) the source type is a job board; and (iv) the source detail identifies the job board as Monster. From the above information in the URL, the third party ATS can ascertain that a broadcast job message was posted on Monster and that the job candidate selected the link in the job message to trigger the method in
As shown in examples 1 and 2 above, the source type, source detail, and communication channel (if required) may be appended to the third party referral URLs. Alternatively, the above information may be included in the third party referral URLs using another format without departing from the invention.
In one embodiment of the invention, the job ID used by the source system is not the same as the job ID used by the third party ATS. In such instances, the source system includes the necessary information to locate the corresponding Job ID used by the third party ATS. For example, the source system may send a request to the third party ATS for the corresponding Job ID. Alternatively, this information may be obtained at the time the job record is created and subsequently stored in the job record for later use.
Though not shown above, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the source system may include any information it tracks about the job and/or job candidate in the third party referral URL.
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In Step 338, the integrated referral URL for the integrated ATS is obtained. In one embodiment of the invention, the integrated referral URL is obtained from the job record or the application record. In one embodiment of the invention, the integrated referral URL may be a unique URL that associates the user (i.e., the individual applying for the job) with the job (as identified by the Job ID). The unique URL allows the appropriate records to be created/updated in the common databases in order to track a particular user as they proceed through the application process. Alternatively, the integrated referral URL may include the (i) source type, (ii) source detail, (iii) communication channel, (iv) Job ID, and (iv) user ID (i.e., the ID of the user that is applying for the job identified by the Job ID) in a manner similar to that shown in Examples 1 and 2 above. In Step 340, the source system sends the integrated referral URL to a web browser on a client system that the job candidate is using. In response to receiving the integrated referral URL, the web browser re-directs the job candidate to the appropriate web page in the integrated ATS. The integrated ATS may use the information that is explicitly or implicitly included in the integrated referral URL to directly populate the appropriate records in the common databases.
In one embodiment of the invention, additional code (for example, in the form of JAVASCRIPT®) may be included on the third Party ATS prior to receiving the third Party Referral URL. In response to receiving a request to serve a webpage corresponding to the third Party Referral URL, execution of the additional code is triggered by the third Party ATS. When executed, the additional code may obtain the following information: (i) source type, (ii) source detail, (iii) communication channel, (iv) Job ID, and (iv) user ID (i.e., the ID of the user that is applying for the job identified by the Job ID). Execution of the additional code may include storage of the aforementioned information in the appropriate database, data structure, etc. in the third Party ATS. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that execution of the additional code may result in obtaining and storing different information than what is included about without departing from the invention.
In one embodiment of the invention, the execution of the additional code obtains one or more pieces of information described above by extracting the one or more pieces of information from the third Party Referral URL. Alternatively, in embodiments of the invention in which the third Party ATS includes the additional code, third Party ATS may receive the third Party ATS URL from the source system instead of receiving the third Party Referral URL (e.g., http://abccareers.com/job123. html instead of http://abccareers.com/job123.html&stp=job_board&sdt1=Monster). In such scenarios, the additional code, when executed, may obtain the aforementioned information (e.g., (i) source type, (ii) source detail, (iii) communication channel, (iv) Job ID, and/or (iv) user ID) using other known mechanisms without departing from the invention.
In Step 342, the data transfer service sends a request to the third party ATS to obtain applicant data. In one embodiment of the invention, the data transfer service requests applicant data associated with a particular job candidate and/or job. In another embodiment of the invention, the data transfer service requests all applicant data for all job candidates and all jobs for which the third party ATS has applicant data. In one embodiment of the invention, the applicant data corresponds to data used to complete the applicant record, for example, application ID, job ID, User ID, source, rating, and stage. Further, the applicant data may include other information about the applicant that may be used to complete other associated records in the user database. For example, the applicant data may be used to populate (or complete) the education record, work history record, and/or skills record, where this information is obtained by the ATS during the job application process. The applicant data is not limited to the above example.
In Step 344, the third party ATS provides the applicant data to the data transfer service. In one embodiment of the invention, the applicant data is transferred to the data transfer service in a batch process, in which the applicant data for multiple jobs and/or job is obtained in a single transaction. In one embodiment of the invention, the applicant data is obtained from the third party ATS in an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) format. Further, the applicant data is transferred to the data transfer service using well known web service protocols.
In step 346, the data transfer service may normalize, as necessary, the applicant data obtained from the third party AST. More specifically, applicant data obtained for the third party ATS may be modified such that it confirms with the requirements of the common databases (106 in
In Step 348, once normalized, the normalized application data (or applicant data if normalization is not necessary) is transferred to the appropriate records in the common databases. In one embodiment of the invention, the data transfer service includes the necessary logic to locate the appropriate records to update in the common databases and the necessary permissions to store the applicant data in the appropriate records.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the TWITTER feed may be dynamically updated while Mary Mclean is viewing the web page. In one embodiment of the invention, the visual representation of the job referral path corresponds to the shortest path between the original sender and the target of the job message (or broadcast job message) that is associated with the URL corresponding to the web page. For example, in
Turning to the example, Referring to
T2, upon receipt of the job message, selects the URL in the job message and is subsequently presented with the corresponding web page (see e.g.,
Referring to
Once the source system receives the aforementioned information, the source system generates the third party referral URL. The third party referral URL is then provided to the job candidate (or more specifically, the web browser executing on the client system that the job candidate is using). The web browser subsequently re-directs the job candidate to the web site of the third party ATS. The job candidate (via their web browser) and in-person participates in the job application process. The third party ATS tracks the job candidates progress through the job application process. During this process, the third party ATS stores applicant data, as discussed above.
At some later point in time, the data retrieval service sends a request to the third party ATS to obtain the applicant data. The third party ATS subsequently sends applicant to the data transfer service. The data transfer service then normalizes, as necessary, the applicant data to obtain normalized applicant data (or applicant data if no normalization is required). The data transfer service subsequently sends the normalized applicant data (or applicant data if no normalization is required) to the common database. At this point, the source system may access the applicant data (as stored in the relevant records in the common databases) and use this date to identify job candidates, track the effectiveness of various communication channels, etc.
Embodiments of the invention may be implemented on virtually any type of computer regardless of the platform being used. For example, as shown in
Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that one or more elements of the aforementioned computer system (600) may be located at a remote location and connected to the other elements over a network. Further, embodiments of the invention may be implemented on a distributed system having a plurality of nodes, where each portion of the invention may be located on a different node within the distributed system. In one embodiment of the invention, the node corresponds to a computer system. Alternatively, the node may correspond to a processor with associated physical memory. The node may alternatively correspond to a processor or micro-core of a processor with shared memory and/or resources. Further, software instructions to perform embodiments of the invention may be stored on a computer readable medium such as a compact disc (CD), a diskette, a tape, or any other computer readable storage device.
While the invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art, having benefit of this disclosure, will appreciate that other embodiments can be devised which do not depart from the scope of the invention as disclosed herein. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be limited only by the attached claims.
This application claims priority, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119(e), to the filing date of Provisional U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 61/529,826, entitled “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOURCE TRACKING,” filed on Aug. 31, 2011, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. The present application contains subject matter that may be related to the subject matter in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/168,665 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/198,316. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/168,665 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/198,316 are incorporated by reference in their entirety in the instant application.
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