Method and apparatus for searching universal resource identifiers

• US 20050060291A1
• Filed: 09/11/2003
• Published: 03/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kirkland, Dustin C., Orozco, Liliana
• Application Number:
  US10/660,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20050060291A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions to search for Web pages within a Web site. A search statement is received as a result of a user input in which the search statement includes a universal resource identifier and a regular expression. A set of universal resource identifiers associated with the universal resource identifier in the request are retrieved to form a set of retrieved universal resource identifiers. These retrieved identifiers are parsed using the regular expression to form search results. The search results are returned in which the search results include a list of universal resource identifiers associated with Web pages for the Web site.

Claims

1. A method in a data processing system for searching for Web pages within a Web site, the method comprising:

receiving a search statement as a result of a user input, wherein the search statement includes a universal resource identifier and a regular expression;

retrieving universal resource identifiers associated with the universal resource identifier in the request to form retrieved universal resource identifiers;

parsing the retrieved universal resource identifiers for the regular expression to form search results; and

returning the search results, wherein the search results include a list of universal resource identifiers associated with the Web pages within the Web site.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the search results are returned as a Web page, wherein the universal resource identifiers are presented as a set of links, wherein selection of a link within the set of links causes a Web page identified by the link to be retrieved.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the regular expression is separated from the universal resource identifier by a delimiter.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the universal resource identifier is a domain name.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the parsing step includes:

searching a table of contents for a match to the regular expression, wherein the table of contents contains the retrieved universal resource identifiers.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving, parsing, and returning steps are performed by a server hosting a Web site identified by the universal identifier, a proxy server, or a client at which the user input was entered.

7. A data processing system for searching for Web pages within a Web site, the data processing system comprising:

a bus system;

a communications unit connected to the bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes a set of instructions; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to receive a search statement as a result of a user input in which the search statement includes a universal resource identifier and a regular expression;

retrieve universal resource identifiers associated with the universal resource identifier in the request to form retrieved universal resource identifiers;

parse the retrieved universal resource identifiers for the regular expression to form search results; and

return the search results in which the search results include a list of universal resource identifiers associated with the Web pages within the Web site.

8. A data processing system to search for Web pages within a Web site, the data processing system comprising:

receiving means for receiving a search statement as a result of a user input, wherein the search statement includes a universal resource identifier and a regular expression;

retrieving means for retrieving universal resource identifiers associated with the universal resource identifier in the request to form retrieved universal resource identifiers;

parsing means for parsing the retrieved universal resource identifiers for the regular expression to form search results; and

returning means for returning the search results, wherein the search results include a list of universal resource identifiers associated with the Web pages within the Web site.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the search results are returned as a Web page, wherein the universal resource identifiers are presented as a set of links, wherein selection of a link within the set of links causes a Web page identified by the link to be retrieved.

10. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the regular expression is separated from the universal resource identifier by a delimiter.

11. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the universal resource identifier is a domain name.

12. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the parsing means includes:

searching means for searching a table of contents for a match to the regular expression, wherein the table of contents contains the retrieved universal resource identifiers.

13. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein retrieving, parsing, and returning means are performed by a server hosting a Web site identified by the universal identifier, a proxy server, or a client at which the user input was entered.

14. A computer program product in a computer readable medium for searching for Web pages within a Web site, the computer program product comprising:

first instructions for receiving a search statement as a result of a user input, wherein the search statement includes a universal resource identifier and a regular expression;

second instructions for retrieving universal resource identifiers associated with the universal resource identifier in the request to form retrieved universal resource identifiers;

third instructions for parsing the retrieved Web pages for the regular expression to form search results; and

fourth instructions for returning the search results, wherein the search results include a list of universal resource identifiers associated with the Web pages within the Web site.