Patent ID: 6907459

Claim:
A method for predicting usage of a collection of content portions comprising: entering a user information need, a requested user starting location and a requested number of iterations; determining a connection topology of the collection of content portions, the connection topology including a plurality of connections, each of the plurality of connections being contained in a respective one of the content portions included in the collection of content portions and connecting the respective one of the content portions to another of the content portions; for each connection determined, determining proximal information cue words associated with each connection, storing at least one of the proximal information cue words based on the connection; determining a predicted user presence in the collection of content portions by determining similarity between the stored proximal information cue words and the user information need; determining a user path from the requested user starting location to a final destination based on the user information need based on spreading activation using the predicted user presence in the collection of content portions and the requested starting location for the requested number of iterations.