Methods and systems for mining websites
US8219583B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 10, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 6, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/95
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Mining of websites that in one embodiment includes obtaining web usage data of user sessions of a website, wherein the website has a hierarchical structure with granular levels and has mapping from each webpage of the website into the hierarchical structure, mapping the user sessions to the hierarchical structure of the website resulting in hierarchical user sessions, initiating an edit distance metrics to determine similarity in the hierarchical user sessions, and clustering similar hierarchical user sessions into groups.
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