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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
Prasad Manikarao Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Savitha Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Vladimir Zbarsky, Newark, CA (US);
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
Prasad Manikarao Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Savitha Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Vladimir Zbarsky, Newark, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting tasks performed by users wherein a single task is a sequence of web URLs invocation. Task patterns are detected in web logs to identify tasks performed by users and analyze task trends over time, across corporate divisions and geographies. A grammar-based framework is used to model and detect tasks from web log patterns. The framework has two components: a declarative unit—to generate a task grammar, and a processing unit—to detect tasks from access logs by generating a state machine for applying the task grammar to the tokens associated with the access records. By analyzing user tasks, rather than just URLs, useful business information can be extracted.