Patent ID: 7433895

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for determining dominance of media elements of display pages, the media elements being images, the method comprising: providing a scoring mechanism for scoring dominance of a media element to a display page that contains the media element based on features of the media element, the dominance of a media element being based on relatedness of the media element to a primary topic of the display page that contains the media element, the scoring providing a rating of the dominance of a media element to the display page; receiving a display page with media elements; identifying media elements of the received display page; for each identified media element; identifying features of the media element; and generating a dominance score for the identified media element of the display page using the provided scoring mechanism and the identified features of the identified media element; and indicating that the media element with the highest dominance score is a dominant media element of the received display page wherein media elements with lower dominance scores are not dominant media elements of the received display page wherein the scoring mechanism scores dominance of a media element using a classifier that is trained to score dominance of media elements to display pages; and wherein the dominance of a media elements to a display page is indicated in association with crawling a display site that provides the display page.