US Patent 7565350 Identifying a web page as belonging to a blog

Patent 7565350 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

75653500

Patent Inventor Names

Steve Shaw-Tang Chien0

Dennis Craig Fetterly0

Date of Patent

July 21, 2009

Patent Application Number

114714030

Date Filed

June 19, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Khanh B. Pham

Patent abstract

A machine learning classifier is used to determine whether a web page belongs to a blog, based on a number of characteristics of web pages (e.g., presence of words such as “permalink”, or being hosted on a known blogging site). The classifier may be initially trained using human-judged examples. After classifying web pages as being blog pages, the blog pages may be further identified or categorized as top level blogs based on their URLs, for example.