Temporal link analysis of linked entities
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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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Abstract
A method for gathering and recording temporal information for a linked entity, the method including identifying a link related activity within a linked source entity, and recording a time stamp in association with the link related activity.
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1. A method for analyzing linked entities, comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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