Method of and apparatus for gathering information, system for gathering information, and computer program

• US 20050108259A1
• Filed: 05/25/2004
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Masami, Fukuyama, Hirohisa
• Granted Patent: US 7,529,771 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

An information-gathering system includes a web archive that stores a first web-page with a first address and first generation information corresponding to the first web-page, a determining unit that determines whether a linked web-page specified in a second web-page that is being referred is stored in the web archive based on a second address of the linked web-page and second generation information corresponding to the second web-page, and an information gathering unit that gathers the linked web-page via the network based on the second address when the determining unit determines that the linked web-page is not stored in the web archive.

Claims

1. An information-gathering apparatus comprising:

a storing unit that acquires information on a first address of a first web-page from a server having a web archive that stores the first address and the first web-page corresponding to the first address, and stores the first address in a gathered-address table;

an access-log acquiring unit that accesses the first web-page based on the first address stored in the gathered-address table, accesses a second web-page linked to the first web-page, and acquires a second address of the second web-page as an access log;

a determining unit that determines whether the second address is stored in the gathered-address table; and

an information gathering unit that gathers the second web-page via the network based on the second address when the second address is not stored in the gathered-address table.

2. An information-gathering system comprising:

a web archive that stores a first web-page with a first address and first generation information corresponding to the first web-page;

a determining unit that determines whether a linked web-page specified in a second web-page that is being referred is stored in the web archive based on a second address of the linked web-page and second generation information corresponding to the second web-page; and

an information gathering unit that gathers the linked web-page via the network based on the second address when the determining unit determines that the linked web-page is not stored in the web archive.

3. An information-gathering method comprising:

gathering a first web-page on a network;

storing the first web-page and a first address corresponding to the first web-page in a web archive;

acquiring information on a second address of a linked web-page specified in a second web-page that is being referred from a terminal;

determining whether the linked web-page is stored in the web archive; and

gathering the linked web-page via the network based on the second address when the linked web-page is not stored in the web archive.

4. An information-gathering method comprising:

acquiring information on a first address of a first web-page from a server having a web archive that stores the first address and the first web-page corresponding to the first address;

storing the first address in a gathered-address table;

accessing the first web-page based on the first address stored in the gathered-address table;

accessing a second web-page linked to the first web-page;

acquiring a second address of the second web-page as an access log;

determining whether the second address is stored in the gathered-address table; and

gathering the second web-page via the network based on the second address when the second address is not stored in the gathered-address table.

5. An information-gathering program making a computer execute steps comprising:

gathering a first web-page on a network;

storing the first web-page and a first address corresponding to the first web-page in a web archive;

acquiring information on a second address of a linked web-page specified in a second web-page that is being referred from a terminal;

determining whether the linked web-page is stored in the web archive; and

gathering the linked web-page via the network based on the second address when the linked web-page is not stored in the web archive.

6. The information-gathering program according to claim 5, wherein

the storing step includes storing the first address and generation information corresponding to the first web-page in the web archive, and

the acquiring step includes acquiring the information from the terminal based on the second address and the generation information.

7. An information-gathering program making a computer execute steps comprising:

acquiring information on a first address of a first web-page from a server having a web archive that stores the first address and the first web-page corresponding to the first address;

storing the first address in a gathered-address table;

accessing the first web-page based on the first address stored in the gathered-address table;

accessing a second web-page linked to the first web-page;

acquiring a second address of the second web-page as an access log;

determining whether the second address is stored in the gathered-address table; and

gathering the second web-page via the network based on the second address when the second address is not stored in the gathered-address table.

8. The information-gathering program according to claim 7, wherein

the accessing a second web-page step includes accessing a script web-page that is operated by script when the first web-page is output,

the acquiring a second address step includes acquiring an address of the script web-page as an access log,

the determining step includes determining whether the address of the script web-page is stored in the gathered-address table, and

the gathering step includes gathering the script web-page via the network based on the address of the script web-page when the address of the script web-page is not stored in the gathered-address table.

9. The information-gathering program according to claim 8, further making the computer execute a step of controlling at least one of a motion of a mouse cursor and a motion of a mouse button with respect to a link to an event-driven web-page that is operated by script when a mouse action occurs on the first web-page based on the first address stored in the gathered-address table.