Patent ID: 7991640

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for determining the quality of visitors to a website, comprising: associating, using one or more computer processors, a first value with a first visitor when the first visitor visits a first web page; associating, using the one or more computer processors, a second value with the first visitor when the first visitor visits a second web page; associating, using the one or more computer processors, the first value with a second visitor when the second visitor visits the first web page; associating, using the one or more computer processors, a third value with the second visitor when the second visitor visits a third web page; determining, using the one or more computer processors, the quality of the first visitor based on at least one of the first and second values associated with the first visitor; and determining, using the one or more computer processors, the relative quality of the first and second visitors based on at least the second and third values.