Patent ID: 7565445

Claim:
A method for categorizing network traffic content, comprising: determining a first characterization of an entirety of the network traffic content contains more than one item; determining a first probability of accuracy associated with the first characterization; determining a second characterization of the entirety of the network traffic content and a second probability of accuracy associated with the second characterization, in which the second characterization is different from the first characterization; categorizing the network traffic content based at least in part on the first probability associated with the first characterization and the second probability associated with the second characterization; and wherein the first and second characterizations are individually determined at least in part according to at least one of an internal link analysis, an external link analysis, a meta tag analysis, and a token analysis, the internal link analysis comprising: characterizing the network traffic content with a particular characterization when a majority of links associated with the network traffic content points to a URL associated with the particular characterization; the external link analysis comprising; characterizing the network traffic content as a function of a database of network traffic content URL characterizations; the meta tag analysis comprising: characterizing the network traffic content as a function of meta tags of the network traffic content associated with certain characterizations; and the token analysis comprising: characterizing text of the network traffic as a function of a number of words in the text also included in a database of characterized words.