Method for Automatically Constructing Pageflows by Analysing Traversed Breadcrumbs

摘要

A method for constructing pageflows by analyzing multiple clickstreams traversed by a user involves analyzing stored navigation interactions of a user to identify segments comprising interconnected nodes sequentially traversed by the user in a single navigation path during a session and to distinguish segments comprising nodes unrelated to other nodes traversed during the session and generating and storing a pageflow consisting of a list of semantically related nodes sequentially traversed by the user at least a pre-determined number of times in a single navigation path during the session based on an analysis of the stored navigation interactions of the user for the clickstream session. The stored pageflow is displayed for the user by a pageflow navigator, and the user is prompted with options to select and recall sequences of nodes from the pageflow and/or to transform the pageflow into an XML structure for export.