Predicting user activity based on usage data received from client devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8930294-B2
Application number	US-201213562256-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2012
Priority date	Jul 30, 2012
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A system for determining an interest of a user based on usage data is provided. Usage data corresponding to a plurality of websites accessed by a user is received from one or more computing devices of the user. The received usage data is categorized into a plurality of categories based on character strings that reference the individual websites. What content items from individual websites the user has selected to view is recorded in order to identify one or more items of interest. An activity of the user at a given time period is predicted based on the categorizations, the identified one or more items of interest, and times and duration of times the user viewed the individual websites. The system performs an action at the given time period based on the predicted activity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
receiving usage data corresponding to a plurality of websites accessed by a user from one or more computing devices of the user, the usage data including character strings that reference the individual websites viewed by the user;
categorizing the received usage data into a plurality of…

Assignees

• Anandaraj Krishna Kumar
• Hewlett Packard Development Co

Inventors

• Anandaraj Krishna Kumar

Classifications

• G06Q30/0251

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/02 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0241

  Physics · mapped topic