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> The Session Identifier Patent, filed in June 1995, makes it possible for
> a company to track Web site visits and usage, and allow "one-to-one"
> marketing -- an increasingly popular feature in e-commerce applications.

Sounds a bit like mod_usertrack/mod_cookies which allocates a unique
session identifier to each user.  

Unfortunately the date on the copyright says 6th July 1995 (it was first
added to Apache 0.8.2).  I'll have to dig out my old logs to see when I
actually wrote the code. 

Mark