Patent ID: 9703880
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method in a web portal environment for assisting a user during navigation in a given hierarchical navigation topology comprising nodes and edges connecting between said nodes, in which topology a web portal page ( 125 ) corresponds to a predetermined topology level and displays one or more portlets ( 120 ), said method comprising the steps of: i) during navigation of a user in the topology of said web portal executing in at least one computer system, automatically sensing ( ii) deriving ( iii) using a predefined metric based on said sensed information for generating a utility ranking for the web pages comprised of the user navigation, wherein the utility ranking calculation of a page includes a time-related weighting prioritizing newly used pages, iv) tracking ( v) utilizing the n-order Markov chain, calculating for said current position and a plurality of target pages a probability that the user will navigate to a respective one of said target pages based upon a number of times the respective one of the target pages has been visited after having traversed a determinate path to the respective one of the target pages, wherein said target pages are obtained by said utility ranking, vi) calculating ( vii) defining ( viii) displaying ( ix) tracking which are the most followed paths for the user, and placing recommendations depending on where the user currently navigates, in order to reduce a number of clicks needed to navigate through the most popular navigation paths.