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Serge is impressive.
At anyrate.
Mozilla and Netscape's Cookie API had already defined the principal foundations for referral based sales. THough the API did not address ecomerce specifically but it did certainly describe exact applications just because ecommerce would be factor is irrelevant.
The factor is a matter of carrying unique identifyers. WHich is why COOKIES were invented in the first place by the US government and Netscape.
Back in the day and to this day there are two direct methods.
1 Method is cookie based.
2 is unique session ID's.
Cookie based tracking was rampant and one can most certainly look to Netscapes Cookie API where it completely describes the concept in a very open manor.
I do not see that this "Patent" would be any threat whats so ever and will be laughed out of a court room with great ease.
My initial concepts were founded in not only Unique Session ID's carrying an affiliate number in cookies but also included cookie reference on referred click through by domain.
My inital concepts were to have the cookie referr to the URL referred and not the AFF ID number.
Both methods worked and worked well.
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