Patent Document ID: 9356849
Application ID: 13985110

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: providing a candidate category hierarchy, including candidate categories, and a mapping between reference pages and the candidate categories, including mapped reference pages; obtaining population usage data of each of the mapped reference pages; using the population usage data to determine a population traffic metric for each of the candidate categories; generating population categories from the candidate categories by using the population traffic metric of each of the candidate categories; and producing a population category hierarchy including the population categories.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the population categories from the candidate categories by using the population traffic metric comprises: deleting a candidate category from inclusion in the population categories when the population traffic metric of the candidate category falls below an inclusion threshold; and retaining a different candidate category as a population category when the population traffic metric of the different candidate category exceeds the inclusion threshold.