Patent Document ID: 20080027936
Application ID: 11459869
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computing system for ranking of web sites having web pages, comprising: a component that provides transition probabilities of a user transitioning from each web page to each other web page; a component that, for each web page of a web site, identifies a stationary probability derived from a stochastic complement of the provided transition probabilities for the web site; a component that generates, for each pair of web sites, a transition probability of a user transitioning from a first web site of the pair to a second web site of the pair based on the identified stationary probabilities derived from the stochastic complements and the provided transition probabilities; a component that, for each web site, identifies from the generated transition probabilities a stationary probability indicating a likelihood that the web site will be visited during a visit to the web sites; and a component that provides a ranking of the web sites based on the stationary probabilities of the web sites.