System and method for automated tracking and analysis of document usage
First Claim
1. A system for automatically submitting a Web page to a search engine, wherein the Web page features an embedded object, comprising:
- (a) a Web server for serving the Web page;
(b) a Web browser for requesting the Web page from said Web server, and for receiving the Web page; and
(c) a submission Web server for receiving at least a URL of the Web page through the embedded object, such that the search engine receives the URI from said submission Web server.
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Abstract
A system and a method for automatically submitting Web pages to a search engine, which is preferably used for sub-mitting dynamic Web pages, but may optionally be used for any type of Web page. According to the present invention, an embedded object is inserted into the Web page, which causes the URL of that Web page to be automatically sent to a Web server when that Web page is loaded by a Web browser. The Web server can then optionally automatically send the received URLs to the search engine, or alternatively, the autonomous software search program could retrieve the received URLs from the Web server. The embedded object itself is preferably inserted as code which is suitable for execution according to a Web-based protocol, such as by a Web browser and/or Web server, for example. There is also provided a system and a method for converting each URL or other Web page address into a normalized form.
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53 Claims
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1. A system for automatically submitting a Web page to a search engine, wherein the Web page features an embedded object, comprising:
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(a) a Web server for serving the Web page;
(b) a Web browser for requesting the Web page from said Web server, and for receiving the Web page; and
(c) a submission Web server for receiving at least a URL of the Web page through the embedded object, such that the search engine receives the URI from said submission Web server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for automatically submitting a Web page to a search engine, wherein the Web page features an embedded object, comprising:
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(a) a Web server for serving the Web page;
(b) a Web browser for requesting the Web page from said Web server, such that when the Web page is received, the embedded object is activated; and
(c) a submission Web server for receiving at least a URL of the Web page upon activation of the embedded object. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for automatically submitting a Web page to a search engine, the Web page featuring an embedded object, comprising:
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requesting the Web page by a Web browser;
upon receipt of the Web page by said Web browser, automatically invoking a request for the embedded object; and
receiving at least the URL of the Web page by said search engine through said request. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for normalizing a URL for a Web page, comprising:
removing at least one redundant parameter from the URL to form a normalized URL. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method for ranking a Web page, comprising:
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defining a time period for dynamically ranking Web pages;
detecting a request for the Web page from a Web browser;
determining a frequency of requests per said defined time period; and
ranking the Web page according to said frequency of requests per said defined time period to determine the popularity of the Web page. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A method for automatically submitting an URI of a document to a repository, the document featuring an embedded object, the method comprising:
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requesting the document by a user application capable of displaying the document;
receiving the document by said user application;
automatically invoking a request for the embedded object when displaying the document by said user application; and
receiving at least the address of the document by the repository through said request. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53)
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