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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2009
Applicants:

Qiang Sun, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Paul Sauer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Niall O'driscoll, San Francisco, CA (US);

David James, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kenji Matsuoka, San Francisco, CA (US);

Prathibha Deshikachar, Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qiang Sun, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Paul Sauer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Niall O'Driscoll, San Francisco, CA (US);

David James, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kenji Matsuoka, San Francisco, CA (US);

Prathibha Deshikachar, Foster City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Alexa Internet, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An analytics system and associated methods are disclosed. The analytics system may be used by site owners and others for various purposes, such as to identify and compare network sites that satisfy particular criteria, and to identify and compare keywords associated with these sites. The system may, among other services, include a service for analyzing keywords in terms of their potential to drive search engine to traffic to a particular site. The analysis may include an assessment of amounts of traffic these keywords are responsible for driving to sites having a shared audience with the particular site. The service may also generate associated keyword-related recommendations for increasing search engine traffic to the particular site.


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