Alexa Internet

Brewster P Kahle

Niall O'Driscoll

Ronna C Tanenbaum

Paul Van Der Merwe Sauer

Jeffrey Michael Bartolotta

Sondra L Cholach

David Loren Marvit

Eric W Jaquith

Bruce C Gilliat

Michael G Burner

Paul Van Der Merve Sauer

Z E Smith

A system is disclosed that enables users to share product-related information across web pages. The system includes a client that executes on a user computer. The client interacts with a data server to provide user access to product-related information associated with products represented on web pages accessed by the user. The product-related information may include information submitted by other users via other instances of the client.

Service for enabling users to share information regarding products represented on web pages

Various computer-implemented methods are disclosed for identifying web sites and web pages that are related to each other. One such method involves collecting search activity data indicative of particular search terms submitted, and corresponding search results selected, by each of a plurality of users. The accumulated search activity data is analyzed on an aggregated basis to identify search-activity-based associations between particular web sites.

Detection of search behavior based associations between web sites

A client executes in conjunction with a web browser on a user computer. The client interacts with a data server to provide user access to product-related information associated with products represented on web pages accessed by the web browser. The product-related information may include information submitted by other users via other instances of the client, such that users share product-related information across web pages.

A meta-data generator is described for generating meta-data relating to at least one Web site, the meta-data identifying, for a Web site providing at least one Web page, identification of, for other Web sites, at least one Web page associated therewith having a selected relationship with the at least one Web site. The meta-data generator includes an information accumulation module, a meta-data generation module and a meta-data storage module. The information accumulation module accumulates Web page information associated with respective Web sites. The meta-data generation module uses the accumulated Web page information according to a selected meta-data generation methodology to generate said meta-data, and the meta-data storage module stores the meta-data generated by the meta-data generation module. Several meta-data generation methodologies are described, including a link (Web page identifier) analysis methodology, two Web page usage analysis methodologies; and a search results analysis methodology. In the link analysis methodology, meta-data is generated associated with Web pages based on the proximity of links to Web pages in each of a plurality of Web pages. In the Web page usage analysis methodologies, the meta-data generator 25 generates meta-data based on the sequence of Web sites which operators enable their computers to request Web pages during a session. In the search results analysis methodology, the meta-data generator generates meta-data based on activities of an operator after he or she receives results generated by a search engine in response to a search query.

Analysis of search activities of users to identify related network sites

A method and apparatus that displays metadata about a web page currently being displayed by a browser. While the web browser is communicating with a web server to obtain the requested web page, client software communicates with a database metadata server to obtain metadata about the requested page. After the browser receives its requested information from the web server, it displays the requested web page in a conventional manner. The client concurrently displays its received metadata on the same computer as the web page, and concurrently with the web page. A preferred embodiment of the present invention opens a button bar in conjunction with the web page display. This button bar allows the user to view various portions of the metadata for the displayed web page.

Automatically generate and displaying metadata as supplemental information concurrently with the web page, there being no link between web page and metadata

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Brewster P Kahle