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Bitly is a leading marketing platform for link and QR Code management, enabling businesses of all sizes to see what’s working across online and offline channels. More than 3M customers rely on Bitly to connect with their audiences. The technology behind the platform has been developed over more than 15 years, and parts of it are protected by patents in the United States.
This page is intended to provide notice to the public under the virtual patent marking provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 287(a). The United States patents listed below are owned by Bitly, Inc. and its affiliates and apply to features and functionality of the Bitly service, including bitly.com, the Bitly web application, the Bitly API, and Bitly mobile applications.
This list is not all-inclusive. The Bitly service and other Bitly products and services may be protected by additional patents and pending patent applications in the United States and elsewhere. Additional patent applications are pending.
United States patents
Patent number |
Title |
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9,111,211 |
Systems and methods for relevance scoring of a digital resource |
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9,128,896 |
Systems and methods for identifying phrases in digital content that are trending |
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9,135,211 |
Systems and methods for trending and relevance of phrases for a user |
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9,135,344 |
System and method providing search results based on user interaction with content |
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9,582,592 |
Systems and methods for generating a recommended list of URLs by aggregating a plurality of enumerated list of URLs, the recommended list of URLs identifying URLs accessed by users that also accessed submitted URL |
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9,619,811 |
Systems and methods for influence of a user on content shared via an encoded uniform resource locator (URL) link |
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10,339,198 |
Systems and methods for benchmarking online activity via encoded links |
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10,367,899 |
Systems and methods for content audience analysis via encoded links |
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10,425,492 |
Systems and methods for web to mobile app correlation |
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10,504,192 |
Systems and methods for influence of a user on content shared via an encoded uniform resource locator (URL) link |
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10,536,541 |
Systems and methods for analyzing traffic across multiple media channels via encoded links |
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10,742,755 |
Systems and methods for online activity monitoring via cookies |
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10,868,879 |
Systems and methods for web to mobile app correlation |
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11,089,121 |
Systems and methods for content audience analysis via encoded links |
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11,223,694 |
Systems and methods for analyzing traffic across multiple media channels via encoded links |
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11,443,010 |
Systems and methods for benchmarking online activity via encoded links |
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11,539,807 |
Systems and methods for web to mobile app correlation |
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11,557,002 |
System and method for relevance scoring of a digital resource |
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11,716,401 |
Systems and methods for content audience analysis via encoded links |
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11,936,751 |
Systems and methods for online activity monitoring via cookies |
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11,947,619 |
Systems and methods for benchmarking online activity via encoded links |
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12,159,319 |
Systems and methods for providing search results based on user interaction with content |