Method and system for emulating web site traffic to identify web site usage patterns
US6278966A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 18, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 21, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 18, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/875
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and device to generate behavior for emulated visitors traversing an internet web site. The visitors may display behavior that is indistinguishable from those of actual users, a subset of the actual users, or the behavior may be purely hypothetical, such as when a visitor acts without evidence of having made an intentional choice. The invention tracks the actions of the visitors and develops reference distributions that may be compared to a site's usage distributions as obtained from actual visitors to the site. The reference distributions are then used to implement statistical estimation methods that measure relative information content. The invention comprises a general implementation and a deterministic implementation. The general version may be applied to live production web sites, and the deterministic version is best suited to offline processing.
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