Patent Document ID: 8499032
Application ID: 12191854

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a seed term; obtaining, by the computing device, a corpus of candidate terms, each candidate term in the corpus comprising the seed term; obtaining, by the computing device, network traffic information comprising a count of the events that occur respectively for each candidate term in the corpus of candidate terms; and for each of the corpus of candidate terms whose respective traffic information satisfies a condition: identifying, by the computing device, a set of domain names associated with the respective candidate term; determining, by the computing device, whether an actively hosted web page resolves to each of the set of domain names, wherein the set of domain names is owned by an owner of the seed term; notifying the seed term owner to serve content on a site associated with a particular one of the set of domain names, if the particular domain name does not resolve to an actively hosted web page and adjusting, by the computing device, the set of domain names associated with the respective candidate term based on an attempt to recover a domain name in a previously compiled set of domain names.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the condition is that the network traffic for the respective candidate terms exceeds a predetermined threshold.