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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2002
Applicants:
Teresa Mah, Redmond, WA (US);
Hendricus D. J. Hoek, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ying LI, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for extracting funnels from at least one input clickstream (CS) representing an ordered path of successively viewed web pages. The invention stores the CS in one or more tree structures in one scan, then traverses each tree structure to identify funnels satisfying input criteria, if any. The input criteria includes depth criteria, width criteria, starting page criteria, and end page criteria.