IP Library Granted Patent US 7,464,086
Granted Patent B2
US 7,464,086 · App. 09/952,827 · Granted Dec 9, 2008

Metatag-based datamining

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Patent No.
US 7,464,086
App. No.
09/952,827
Granted
Dec 9, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for displaying products or services for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product or service descriptions, to determine the keywords in the product descriptions, and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions accomplish automatic selection.

Claims (36)

1. A computerized method for displaying a recommendation to a user of the World Wide Web, the method comprising:

displaying a first webpage in response to a user request;

metatagging one or more term within the first webpage as at least one keyword and referencing the at least one metatagged keyword to an unique article ID;

identifying the at least one keyword by comparing the at least one metatagged keyword with a predefined keyword list using a statistical frequency analysis of keyword clusters to obtain a comparison result, the keyword cluster including two or more keywords in combination together; and

displaying at least one second webpage to the user based on the identifying, wherein the at least one second webpage includes the recommendation of either a product or service determined using the statistical frequency analysis of the keyword clusters, the statistical frequency analysis further including analysis of at least one pilot keyword associated with the keyword clusters to denote a demographic, the recommendation of either a product or service associated with the demographic denoted by the pilot keyword.

2. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

sending at least one recommendation of webpage content to the user based on said comparison result.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying at least one second webpage to the user comprises:

producing a plurality of related webpage contents ranked based upon at least one ranking criterion.

4. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

storing said at least one identified keyword in a database; and

creating a user profile based on the storing.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the displaying at least one second webpage to the user comprises:

comparing the user profile with the predefined list of keywords;

providing recommendations of web contents dynamically to the user based on the comparison result.

6. A computerized method for displaying a content recommendation to a user, the method comprising:

receiving a request from the user to display at least one first content record from a plurality of records;

generating customer behavior data from the at least one first content record;

wherein generating comprises:

metatagging one or more term from the at least one first content record as at least one keyword;

referencing the at least one metatagged keyword to an unique article ID;

comparing the generated customer behavior data with a predefined list of keyword clusters using a statistical frequency analysis of the keyword clusters to obtain a comparison result to identify the at least one keyword cluster, the keyword cluster including two or more keywords in combination together; and

communicating at least one second webpage to the user based on the comparison, wherein the at least one second webpage includes the recommendation determined using the statistical frequency analysis of the keyword clusters, the statistical frequency analysis further including analysis of at least one pilot keyword associated with the keyword clusters to denote a demographic, the recommendation associated with the demographic denoted by the pilot keyword.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the communicating the at least one second content record to the user includes displaying a plurality of second content records ranked based upon at least one ranking criterion.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the at least one first and second content records comprise at least one of television programs information, film directories, reference directories, news program information, weather information, sports information, encyclopedic reference information, or financial information.

9. The method of claim 6 , comprising:

storing at least one metatagged keyword cluster in a database; and

creating a user profile based on the storing.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the communicating at least one second content record to the user is based at least in part on analyzing the user profile.

11. The method of claim 6 , wherein the comparing the generated customer behavior data with a predefined list of keyword clusters comprises:

wherein the communicating the at least one second content record to the user includes performing a Boolean ANDed query between the at least one metatagged keyword and the predefined list of keyword clusters.

12. The method of claim 11 , comprising:

analyzing the comparison result to determine a context;

selecting at least one second content record based at least in part on the context; and

wherein the communicating the at least one second content record to the user is based on the selecting.

13. The method as recited in claim 6 , wherein the first and second content records are documents from the world wide web.

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