Method and system for mining websites
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsFeng Xue, Abha Moitra, Steven Matt Gustafson
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Abstract
One website mining embodiment is for characterizing first time users of a website, collecting user session data of the users visiting the website and identifying first time visitors, determining features of the first time visitors utilizing the user session data, determining rules utilizing the features of the first time visitors, monitoring actions of the first time visitors on the website, updating the rules utilizing the monitored actions of the first time visitors and recommending web content utilizing the rules to the first time visitor.
Claims18
A method of website mining, comprising:
- collecting user session data of users visiting the website and identifying first time visitors;
- determining features of the first time visitors utilizing the user session data;
- determining rules utilizing the features of the first time visitors;
- monitoring actions of the first time visitors on the website;
- recommending web content utilizing the rules to the first time visitor;
- and
- updating the rules utilizing the monitored actions of the first time visitors.
A system of website mining comprising:
- a webserver for storing web usage data of a website in a storage device;
- and
- a webserver engine connected to the webserver for:
- processing the user session data to determine features of first time visitors of the website and determining rules based on the features of the first time users;
- recommending web content to the first time visitors using the rules;
- monitoring actions of the first time visitor to update the rules;
- and
- updating the rules based on the actions of the first time visitors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.