Patent ID: 7536417
Filing Date: 2009-05-19
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring user browsing activity, comprising: aggregating a plurality of search queries that include one or more keywords, wherein the search queries are user-submitted search queries submitted by way of an Internet search engine; monitoring the number of user-submitted queries for the plurality of search queries; detecting a threshold amount of activity for a search query, wherein activity is the number of times the search query is submitted by a user; receiving a request for updated statistics of a search query, wherein the updated version is for a second time interval that is shorter than a first time interval and the first time interval is one hour or less; increasing the monitoring frequency of the search query, wherein increasing the monitoring frequency of the detected search query comprises updating statistics of the detected search query more frequently; updating the statistics of the requested search query according to the second time interval; and providing the updated statistics according to the second time interval.