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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1998
Steven Kenneth Howard, Irving, TX (US);
David Charles Martin, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Earl Paul Plutowski, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus that allows association rules defining URL-URL relationships, and URL-URL relationships that are strongly influenced by a web site's topology, to be identified and respectively qualified. Superfluous association rules may be separated from non-topology affected association rules and discounted as desired. The invention may be implemented in conjunction with a probalistic generative method used to model a web site and simulate the behavior of a visitor traversing the site. The invention further allows randomized web site visitor behavior to be separated into “interesting” and “uninteresting” behavior.