Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer network managing – Computer network monitoring
Patent
1996-08-09
1999-08-03
Ramirez, Ellis B.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer network managing
Computer network monitoring
G06F 1700
Patent
active
059319127
ABSTRACT:
A method and system to map client access patterns in a stateless hypertext server. For each hypertext object access, a plurality of information about the access may be collected, including the requestor address, the hyperlink source, and the hyperlink target. When available, a time stamp of the access and agent information may also be used. The hyperlink source and hyperlink target form a hyperlink access pair, representing a step in the user traversal path on the hypertext objects. These hyperlink access pairs are then mapped into hyperlink access groups. Each hyperlink group represents all the hypertext objects visited by a user along a traversal path. To map hyperlink access pairs into access groups, each access pair is added to an active session if the new access pair can expand the session into a connected traversal path. Once hyperlink groups are identified, user-oriented object usage statistics can be analyzed. When client and/or proxy caching occurs, hypertext objects are fetched locally instead of from the hypertext server. Thus, no requests are made to the server for the cached objects. As a result, it may be required to add valid backward traversal steps to an active session in order to form a valid connected traversal path. One could find any backward traversal path for the needed backward steps. To preserve memory space, a method is also disclosed which finds the shortest valid backward traversal path. Once the client access patterns have been mapped, a user-oriented statistical analysis can be performed.
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Wu Kun-Lung
Yu Philip Shi-Lung
International Business Machines - Corporation
Ramirez Ellis B.
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