US 8,799,455 B1Granted

Addressable network resource selection management

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsJinesh U. Vora, Adam Brent Johnson

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Abstract

A system and a method for the management of addressable network resources (e.g., Web pages, electronic documents accessed via a Uniform Resource Identifier, etc.) within a network are provided. Specifically, embodiments of addressable network resource selection systems and methods are disclosed for managing the analysis and identification of optimal links between addressable network resources. A resource selection component enables pruning of undesirable pages on the basis of various usage metrics, including user depart rate. The resource selection component may then identify optimal linking strategies by determining one or more linking scores for remaining pages based on any of a number of different page usage metrics. In other embodiments, addressable network resource selection systems and methods may weight linking scores to emphasize desired outcomes, such as encouraging exploration of a network-based site or encouraging high aggregate sales figures.

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Dependent claims

A system for selecting webpages comprising:

a memory component for storing a set of webpages and one or more webpage scores, wherein each of the one or more webpage scores is associated with a respective webpage, and wherein each member of the set of webpages includes a link to another webpage;
and
a webpage selection component operative to:
obtain usage data associated with one or more members of the set of webpages, wherein the usage data includes at least one of clickstream data, purchasing data, and time viewing data;
determine a user depart rate associated with a first webpage of the set of webpages, wherein the user depart rate corresponds to a rate over time at which a plurality of users fail to perform additional actions from the first webpage, and wherein the user depart rate is based upon the usage data associated with the first webpage;
remove the first webpage from the set of webpages based upon the associated user depart rate exceeding a particular threshold;
determine a first webpage linking score associated with each remaining one or more members of the set of webpages, wherein individual first webpage linking scores for each of the remaining one or more members of the set of webpages are determined based upon a usage metric determined from the usage data associated with each respective webpage;
obtain information regarding a current user;
and
identify a second webpage in the remaining one or more members of the set of webpages for providing to the current user based on at least the first webpage linking score associated with the second webpage and the obtained information regarding the current user.

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A computer-implemented method for selecting addressable network resources comprising:

obtaining usage data associated with one or more members of a set of addressable network resources, wherein each member of the set of addressable network resources includes at least one link to another addressable network resource;
determining a user depart rate associated with each of one or more members of the set of addressable network resources, wherein the user depart rate is based upon the usage data and corresponds to a rate of a plurality of user departures over time, and wherein the user depart rate is further associated with failure of a user to perform one or more additional actions when provided with an addressable network resource;
removing a first addressable network resource from the set of addressable network resources at least based upon the associated user depart rate exceeding a particular threshold;
determining at least one linking score associated with each of remaining one or more members of the set of addressable network resources, wherein the at least one linking score is determined at least based upon the usage data;
obtaining information regarding a current user;
and
identifying a second addressable network resource in the remaining one or more members of the set of addressable network resources, wherein identifying the second addressable network resource is at least based on a determined linking score associated with the second addressable network resource and the obtained information regarding the current user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.