Patent ID: 7630973

Claim:
A method for identifying related pages from a plurality of pages in a linked database, comprising the steps of: selecting an initial page from the plurality of pages; identifying a plurality of pages linked to the initial page; identifying a plurality of stop URLs, said determination including an analysis of incoming and outgoing links associated with the stop URL, wherein the stop URL is a URL frequency referenced by another plurality of pages, content of a web pages associated with the URL is general in nature and is unrelated to one or more topics of the initial page; representing the initial page and the plurality of linked pages as a graph of undirected nodes and edges in a memory, the nodes excluding the one or more stop URLs; repeatedly scoring the initial page and the pages linked to the initial page, where the scoring is based on connectivity of the pages; and selecting a subset of the pages scored on connectivity that have scores greater than a first predetermined threshold as the related pages of the linked database; and storing the selected subset of pages in a computerized memory device.