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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:
May. 06, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2005
Applicants:

Elmore Eugene Pope, Sammamish, WA (US);

Brad E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);

Inventors:

Elmore Eugene Pope, Sammamish, WA (US);

Brad E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for determining interest levels of online content based on rates of change of content access traffic. According to one embodiment, a method may include detecting content request traffic directed to a content source, determining a time rate of change of said content request traffic, and determining an indication of content interest associated with the content source, where the indication is dependent upon the time rate of change of the content request traffic. The method may further include storing the indication of content interest on a computer-accessible medium.


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