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Temporal link analysis of linked entities

  • US 7,792,827 B2
  • Filed: 12/31/2002
  • Issued: 09/07/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for analyzing linked entities, comprising:

  • identifying one or more destination documents and a collection of source documents that contain hypertext links that identify one or more of the destination documents by specifying respective locations of the destination documents;

    detecting changes in the source documents;

    creating, on a computer, link activity records responsively to the detected changes, each link activity record comprising;

    an identification of a respective destination document and of a respective source document in which a change was made and which contains a link to the respective destination document; and

    a time stamp indicative of a time at which the change was made; and

    collecting the link activity records with respect to the links from a plurality of the source documents to a given destination document, and processing the collected link activity records in order to discover changes in an activity level indicated by a number of the link activity records associated with the collection over time.

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