Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Performance or efficiency evaluation
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-14
2001-11-06
Hoff, Marc S. (Department: 2862)
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Performance or efficiency evaluation
C345S215000, C345S215000, C345S215000, C345S440000, C345S960000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06314386
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a site access log analyzing method of analyzing and grasping how user's computers have accessed and utilized various types of sites a provided on servers on a computer network, in particular, on Internet and a method of displaying the site analog log.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recently, various types of information has been put on sites provided in servers and presented to users in correspondence to an increase in an Internet population.
The manager of the sites attempt to obtain information as to the tastes and tends of the users by presenting the useful information to them so that the managers can obtain data for a company strategy, marketing and the like and find new customers.
It is necessary, however, to detect and analyze how the users have read and used the page files describing various types of contents between sites or in a site and to grasp how the users have utilized them in order to obtain the information as to the tastes and trends of the users. As a conventional method of detecting and analyzing how the page files have been used by users, there has been used a method of recording log files in servers based on the access information from the users and analyze the log files to thereby grasp how sites have been utilized.
It is necessary, however, to dynamically capture how the users have moved in the respective content files and returned therefrom in order to obtain the information as to the tastes and trends of users in more detail. When, however, the conventional method of using the log files in servers is used, it is difficult to dynamically grasp a content file and a server from which a user, who had accessed to a prescribed content file, has returned as well as it is impossible to time sequentially trace a user who has made reciprocating movements between prescribed content files in a site even if it is the same site, although it is possible to grasp quantitative information such as the total number of users who have accessed prescribed content files.
An object of the present invention made in view of the above problem is to provide a site access log analyzing method and a method of displaying the site analog log capable of grasping how respective content files have been utilized by users in sites between servers or in a server by dynamically detecting and analyzing how the sites have been utilized and displaying the result of analysis.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention, a site access log analyzing method of analyzing and grasping how a site is utilized by users which is provided in a server on a computer network to which a plurality of computers are connected through a communication cable is characterized by comprising the step of transferring access logs to a server in response to the request of the server and time sequentially storing them in storing means of a computer of the site users to solve the above problem.
According to the characteristic, even if a user moves to a plurality of servers, the access log information thereof is time sequentially stored in the user's computer. Thus, site managers can grasp how the user has used content files and how the user has moved in the content files when necessary by transferring the access log information to the servers and storing it in them.
In the site access log analyzing method of the present invention, it is preferable that the access logs stored in the storing means include a plurality of items such as time information, finding time information, region information and the like and items to be stored in the storing means can be designated by the server.
With this arrangement, since a site manager selects only the information he wants and sends it to a server and stores it therein, a storing capacity necessary to analysis can be minimized.
A site access log display method according to the present invention is characterized by comprising the step of displaying how side users have moved between page files in each site by arrows based on access log information transferred to a server in response to the request of the server and time sequentially stored in storing means of a computer of the site users as well as displaying the number of users who have executed the movements corresponding to the arrows.
With this arrangement, dynamic information as to how a user of a site has moved in a site and contents can be easily confirmed visually.
It is preferable that the thickness of the arrows is changed in proportion to the number of users who have executed the movements corresponding to the arrows.
With this arrangement, how a user has moved in content files can be grasped more visually.
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Duong Khoi Hung
Hayes, Soloway, Hennessey Grossman & Hage, P.C.
Hoff Marc S.
Venture Union Inc.
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