Groupon, Inc.

Bytedance Inc.

Jim Challenger

Michael Hines

Isaac Sanders

Dean Marano

Jesse Pinho

David Hanley

Michael Gideon Sussman

Michael Sussman

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predicting consumer behavior. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising automatically creating a link graph comprising nodes representing webpages, links representing hyperlinks, and weights for each link representing a number of times a hyperlink associated with the respective link redirected the a user devices from a webpage associated with a first node connected to the link to a webpage associated with a second node connected to the link; and determining based on the link graph a programmatically expected path for a particular user, wherein the programmatically expected path identifies, at least, two or more webpages that the particular user is programmatically expected to visit and specifying a programmatically expected order at which the particular user will visit the webpages.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for predicting web browsing behaviors of consumers

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Jim Challenger