Site access log analyzing method and method of displaying the same

• US 6,314,386 B1
• Filed: 10/14/1998
• Issued: 11/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Venture Union, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Venture Union, Inc.
• Inventors: Uemura, Fumiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoff, Marc S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DUONG, KHOI H
• Application Number:
  US09/172,804
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• Field of Search: 702/186, 702/182, 702/172, 713/200, 713/201, 714/47, 705/44, 709/103, 709/255, 707/100, 707/103, 340/937, 700/19, 345/440, 345/356, 345/966, 345/348, 345/349
• US Class Current: 702/186
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/966 Computer process, e.g. operation of computer

Abstract

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, the method comprising the step of transferring access logs to a server in response to the request of the server and time sequentially storing them in a memory of a computer of the site users. With this arrangement, even if a user moved 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.

Claims

1. A site access log display method, comprising the step of displaying how site 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.

2. A site access log display method according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the arrows is changed in proportion to the number of users who have executed the movements corresponding to the arrows.