Patent Document ID: 8103599
Application ID: 12237392
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining a webpage importance of an individual webpage, the method comprising: receiving web browsing behavior data of one or more users; creating a model of the web browsing behavior data, the creating comprising: estimating staying times for webpages when the webpages are accessed by the one or more users, the webpages including the individual webpage; calculating reset probabilities in which the one or more users navigated among the webpages by entering Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses into web browsers; determining transition probabilities in which the one or more users navigated among the webpages by clicking hyperlinks; using the reset probabilities and the transition probabilities to create a discrete-time embedded Markov chain model; and using the estimated staying times and the discrete-time embedded Markov chain model to create the model of the web browsing behavior data; calculating a stationary probability distribution of the model of the web browsing behavior data; and correlating the stationary probability distribution to the webpage importance of the individual webpage, wherein estimating the staying times comprises: determining differences in time between individual accesses of the web pages by the one or more users; and removing noise from the differences in time; and wherein at least the creating the model of the web browsing behavior data is performed with a computing device.