Archiving method and apparatus for digital information from web pages

• US 20040034647A1
• Filed: 05/08/2002
• Published: 02/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ADI, LLC (Alliance Data Systems Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aksa-SDS, Inc.
• Inventors: Paxton, K. Bradley, Riaz, Umar
• Application Number:
  US10/141,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20040034647A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

The present invention is a method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages, including traversing the plurality of web pages by recursively following the links to identify each of the individual web pages to be archived; making a list of web pages to be archived; sequentially retrieving the contents of each web page on the list; forming a digital image of the visible content of each web page; and ultimately creating a visually perceptible archival copy of each web page from the digital image on a durable, human readable medium.

Claims

1. A method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages, comprising:

traversing the plurality of web pages by recursively following the links to identify each of the individual web pages to be archived;

making a list of web pages to be archived;

sequentially retrieving the contents of each web page on the list;

forming a digital image of the visible content of each web page; and

creating a visually perceptible archival copy of each web page from the digital image on a durable, readable medium.

2. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 1 in which the step of making a list of web pages to be archived comprises making a list of the URL'"'"'s of the pages to be archived.

3. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 1 in which making a list of web pages to be archived comprises selecting individual web pages from the identified web pages.

4. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 1 in which making a list of web pages to be archived comprises adding an unique identifier to each selected individual web page from the identified web pages.

5. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 1 in which making a list of web pages to be archived comprises adding a second identifier to selected groups of individual web pages from the identified web pages.

6. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 3 in which selecting individual web pages from the identified web pages comprises presenting a list of identified web pages to a user and receiving an indication from the user to include or exclude each identified web page from the list of web pages to be archived.

7. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 1 further comprising the step of storing the visually perceptible archival copy of each web page in a durable, human readable medium.

8. The method for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 7 further comprising the step of retrieving a digital image from the visually perceptible archival copy of each web page.

9. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages, comprising:

software that comprises steps of;

traversing the plurality of web pages by recursively following the links to identify each of the individual web pages to be archived;

making a list of web pages to be archived;

sequentially retrieving the contents of each web page on the list; and

forming a digital image of the visible content of each web page.

10. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 9 further comprising a CD writer that allows the user to write the image on a CD for short term storage.

11. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 9 further comprising a microfilm writer that allow the user to write electronic images.

12. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 10 further wherein the microfilm writer is a microfiche writer.

13. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 12 in which the electronic file is a TIFF file.

14. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages, of claim 12 further comprising a storage writer to create the electronic file to a visually perceptible archival copy of each web page from the digital image for archival storage.

15. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 14 in which the storage is on a durable, human readable medium such as microfilm.

16. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 15, further comprising a reader to retrieve a digital image from the visually perceptible archival copy of each web page on the durable, human readable medium.

17. A website digital archiver for archiving data stored in a plurality of linked web pages of claim 16 in which the digital image is a TIFF file.