Patent ID: 7020643

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for extracting at least one web usage analysis funnel from at least one input clickstream (CS) for analyzing user interactions with a web site, said computer-implemented method comprising: identifying an ordered path of web pages P 1 to P N as the web pages are successively viewed by a user, said identified ordered path constituting a CS; storing each ordered path within the CS in one of up to N tree structures, each of said tree structures having a root node P i corresponding to one of pages P 1 to p N and having successive child nodes corresponding to the successive pages after P i of P i+1 to P i+x , said X representing a specified depth criterion; and extracting a list of stored paths from each of the tree structures, each of the stored paths in the extracted list representing the web pages successively viewed by users from the root node P i to each end node P i+x as a function of the specified depth criterion.