Patent ID: 9692804
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of determining a creation time of a target page, the method being executable at a server coupled to a communication network, the method comprising: creating a page network representation of a plurality of pages including the target page and a plurality of links, the creation time of the target page being unknown, assigning a plurality of hypothetical values for the creation time of the target page having the unknown creation time, an earliest one of the plurality of hypothetical values being one of: determining a respective page network probability for the page network representation corresponding to each one of the plurality of hypothetical values for the creation time of the target page, identifying a particular one of the plurality of hypothetical values of the creation time of the target page that corresponds to a greatest one of the respective page network probability; and assigning the particular one of the plurality of hypothetical values of the creation time to the creation time for the target page.