Patent ID: 8359307

Claim:
A method for characterizing a plurality of extensible markup language documents, each of the plurality of extensible markup language documents comprising a link to another extensible markup language document of the plurality of extensible markup language documents, the method comprising: traversing the plurality of extensible markup language documents by following each link of the plurality of extensible markup language documents; parsing the plurality of extensible markup language documents to determine a structural hierarchy of the plurality of extensible markup language documents; associating a task complexity with the plurality of extensible markup language documents based on the structural hierarchy, the associating comprising: extracting a plurality of blocks of information from the plurality of extensible markup language documents; and assigning a block of information in the plurality of blocks of information to a category in a plurality of categories, the plurality of categories comprising a task complexity category, the block of information comprising a value indicative of a number of extensible markup language documents associated with the plurality of extensible markup language documents and a value indicative of a number of links associated with the plurality of extensible markup language documents; and characterizing the plurality of extensible markup language documents based on the task complexity.