Patent ID: 7051029
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying sequences of Web pages that are frequently visited in order non-consecutively during user browsing sessions, the Web pages of a sequence visited in order during a user browsing session when each Web page of the sequence is visited before a next Web page of the sequence is visited, the Web pages of a sequence visited non-consecutively during a user browsing session when at least one intervening Web page that is not part of the sequence is visited between the visits to the Web pages of the sequence, the method comprising: receiving a Web server log generated by a Web server serving a Website having Web pages, the Web server log reflecting usage of the Website by users; identifying multiple user browsing sessions from the received Web server log, each identified user browsing session indicating a series of Web pages from the Website that were consecutively visited in order by a user; and identifying sequences of the Web pages of the Website that were frequently visited in order non-consecutively in the identified user browsing sessions by such that after creation of the tree data structure is completed, the sequences of Web pages that are associated with the nodes remaining in the tree data structure are the identified sequences of the Web pages that were frequently visited in order non-consecutively during the identified user browsing sessions.