Patent ID: 6175838
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for analyzing usage patterns in an electronic commerce environment through a server that contains a plurality of web pages and logs, each of the web pages containing a web page file and one or more other type files, each of the logs containing data for indicating user access status of web page files and the other type files, comprising the steps of:receiving data from the server;identifying data for a web page file;identifying data for other type files that are linked in said web page file;correlating said data for said other type files with said data for said web page file, andstoring said correlated data into an output file;wherein said web page file, and each of said other type files linked in said web page file, has a file length, and the method further comprises the step of:combining file lengths of said web page file and said other type files that are linked in said web page file to provide information representative of bandwidth used.