Patent ID: 7278105

Claim:
A method of visualizing and analyzing user clickstream data for a network comprising: performing a significance test on the user clickstream data from a network log and generating significance results, the network log storing activities of a plurality of users; determining which of the user clickstream data from the network log meet a traffic flow criterion and which of the significance results meet a significance criterion to form determined data; and generating a first graph based on the determined data, wherein the first graph comprises a node-and-line format with line segments between nodes and wherein generating the first graph further comprises: placing a first number near a corresponding line segment between a first node and a second node, wherein the first number comprises one of the significance results and represents a significance between a first network address, which corresponds to the first node, and a second network address, which corresponds to the second node; and placing a second number near the corresponding line segment, wherein the second number comprises a click distance between the first network address and the second network address.