International Business Machines Corporation

Matthew Robert Ganis

Stephen Carl Hammer

Brian James Snitzer

Herbert Daniel Pearthree

Paul Reed

Paul Roger Briscoe

Cameron Donald Ferstat

Michael Shannon Nichols

Gary Bob Kip Hansen

Sean Alan Harp

Santosh S Borse

Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method of determining the relevancy of multiple sources. The method includes receiving a selection of one or more sources for monitoring. Thereafter, a relevancy factor can be assigned to each source. Data from one or more targets existing on each source can be gathered. In addition, a decay factor can be applied to the data to weight the data based on how recent the data is. The relevancy factor and the decay factor can be used to determine a relevancy score to determine the relevancy of the data. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Determining relevancy of discussion topics

A method and system for gathering enriched web server activity data in a global communications network in which requested information files are cached at a plurality of network devices. With the prevalence of web caching on the Internet, the origin web servers do not serve the majority of requests for web site content. A single pixel clear Graphics Image Format (GIF) request is added to the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) source file for a web page. Appended to the GIF request is a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) string of data that contains enhanced web activity data information, including the number of images ('hits') that have to be retrieved by a client browser to build the web page, and the referring identifier that resulted in access to the web page. The single pixel clear GIF request is not cacheable and results in the request being transmitted to the origin web server when the client browser interprets the HTML file. The enriched data is stored in log files at the origin web server to accumulate an accurate number of hits on the web page.

Gathering enriched web server activity data of cached web content

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Matthew Robert Ganis