CALCULATING A WEBPAGE IMPORTANCE FROM A WEB BROWSING GRAPH

Patent №

US 8,368,698

Granted

2013-02-05

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

2

nlp · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12236516

Method for creating a graph representing web browsing behavior, including receiving web browsing behavior data from one or more web browsers; adding a node on the graph for each web page listed in the web browsing behavior data; adding a first link connecting two or more nodes on the graph, wherein the first link representing a hyperlink for accessing a webpage; calculating an amount of time in which each web page is being accessed; determining a number of units of time in the calculated amount of time; adding one or more virtual nodes to the graph based on the number of units of time; and adding a second link connecting two or more virtual nodes on the graph, wherein the second link representing a virtual hyperlink for accessing a webpage.

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Natural language0.57
Planning0.43
Machine learning0.06
Knowledge representation0.02
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 216390877

Assignors

GAO, BIN, LIU, TIE-YAN, LI, HANG, LIU, YUTING

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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