Interest keyword identification

• US 10,042,927 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2013
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yieldbot Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Yeildbot Incorporated
• Inventors: Pieper, Keith Merle
• Primary Examiner(s): Chbouki, Tarek
• Application Number:
  US13/746,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,023 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A domain classifier develops and maintains relevance data about specific domains based on historical relevance data and source context data. Such data may be used to classify the user'"'"'s interest in attempting to visit a specific domain and thereby redirect the user to a website expected to be aligned with the user'"'"'s interest. In various implementations, the historical relevance data is derived from source context data and/or post-visit user behavior collected from previous attempts to visit a specific domain. The source context data collected from the current visit may also be used as source context-factors to influence domain classification. Based on such historical and current source context factors, as well as the domain address provided in the user'"'"'s navigation request, a domain classifier consults the historical relevance data and provides the user with Web content that is identified as likely to be relevant to the user'"'"'s interests.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request from a client device to access a first content that is not available from a first Web domain;

identifying, by the server, at least one interest keyword based on a combination of keywords that yield search results including the first Web domain and a user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the search results;

classifying, by the server, the first content that is not available based on the at least one interest keyword;

identifying, by the server, a second web domain based on historical relevance data, and the classification of the first content that is not available, the historical relevance data including one or more previous attempts to access the first Web domain and session data representing activity performed with respect to the first Web domain; and

transmitting, by the server, the at least one interest keyword to a server of the second Web domain, wherein the second Web domain serves second content similar to the first content and associated with the interest keyword to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is an advertising server and the served second content includes an advertisement that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data prior to the identifying operation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the served second content is one or both of advertising content and web content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s keyword search results are obtained from the user'"'"'s entry of one or more search keywords into a search engine.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying operation includes:

identifying the user'"'"'s perceived interest based on a combination of the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the user'"'"'s keyword search results; and

selecting the at least one interest keyword based on the user'"'"'s perceived interest, wherein the first content that is not available is relevant to the user'"'"'s perceived interest.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s clickstream data includes the first Web domain and the served second content is served via the second Web domain.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the served second content is a product offer that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request from a client device to access a first content that is not available from a first Web domain;

identifying, by the server, at least one interest keyword based on a combination of keywords that yield search results including the first Web domain and a user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the search results;

classifying, by the server, the first content that is not available based on the at least one interest keyword;

identifying, by the server, a second web domain based on historical relevance data and the classification of the first content that is not available, the historical relevance data including one or more previous attempts to access the first Web domain and session data representing activity performed with respect to the first Web domain; and

providing the user access to second content similar to the first content from the second Web domain using the identified at least one keyword.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the providing operation includes:

redirecting the user to the second Web domain to access the second content of the second Web domain.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the second content of the second Web domain includes an advertisement that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data prior to the identifying operation.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the second content of the second Web domain is one or both of advertising content and web content.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the user'"'"'s keyword search results are obtained from the user'"'"'s entry of one or more search keywords into a search engine.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the identifying operation includes:

identifying the user'"'"'s perceived interest based on a combination of the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the user'"'"'s keyword search results; and

selecting the at least one interest keyword based on the user'"'"'s perceived interest, wherein the first content that is not available is relevant to the user'"'"'s perceived interest.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the user'"'"'s clickstream data includes the first Web domain and the access to the second content of the second Web domain is provided via the second Web domain.

17. The method of claim 9, wherein the second content of the second Web domain is a product offer that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

18. One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for performing a computer process, the computer process comprising:

receiving a request by a client device to access a first content that is not available from a first Web domain;

identifying at least one interest keyword based on a combination of keywords that yield search results including the first Web domain and a user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the search results;

classifying the first content that is not available based on the at least one interest keyword;

identifying a second web domain based on historical relevance data and the classification of the first content that is not available, the historical relevance data including one or more previous attempts to access the first Web domain and session data representing activity performed with respect to the first Web domain; and

transmitting the at least one interest keyword to a server of the second Web domain, wherein the second Web domain serves second content similar to the first content and associated with the interest keyword to the user.

19. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the server is an advertising server and the served second content includes an advertisement that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

20. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the computer process further comprises:

receiving the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data prior to the identifying operation.

21. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the served second content is one or both of advertising content and web content.

22. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the user'"'"'s keyword search results are obtained from the user'"'"'s entry of one or more search keywords into a search engine.

23. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the identifying operation includes:

identifying the user'"'"'s perceived interest based on a combination of the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the user'"'"'s keyword search results; and

selecting the at least one interest keyword based on the user'"'"'s perceived interest, wherein the first content that is not available is relevant to the user'"'"'s perceived interest.

24. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the user'"'"'s clickstream data includes the first Web domain and the served second content is served via the second Web domain.

25. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18, wherein the served second content is a product offer that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

26. One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for performing a computer process, the computer process comprising:

receiving a request by a client device to access a first content that is not available from a first Web domain;

identifying at least one interest keyword based on a combination of keywords that yield search results including the first Web domain and a user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the search results;

classifying the first content that is not available based on the at least one interest keyword;

identifying a second web domain based on historical relevance data and the classification of the first content that is not available, the historical relevance data including one or more previous attempts to access the first Web domain and session data representing activity performed with respect to the first Web domain; and

providing the user access to second content similar to the first content from the second Web domain using the identified at least one keyword.

27. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the providing operation includes:

redirecting the user to the second Web domain to access the second content of the second Web domain.

28. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the second content of the second Web domain includes an advertisement that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.

29. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the computer process further comprises:

receiving the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data prior to the identifying operation.

30. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the second content of the second Web domain is one or both of advertising content and web content.

31. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the user'"'"'s keyword search results are obtained from the user'"'"'s entry of one or more search keywords into a search engine.

32. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the identifying operation includes:

identifying the user'"'"'s perceived interest based on a combination of the user'"'"'s keyword search results and the user'"'"'s clickstream data responsive to the user'"'"'s keyword search results; and

selecting the at least one interest keyword based on the user'"'"'s perceived interest, wherein the first content that is not available is relevant to the user'"'"'s perceived interest.

33. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the user'"'"'s clickstream data includes the first Web domain and the access to the second content of the second Web domain is provided via the second Web domain.

34. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the second content of the second Web domain is a product offer that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.