Process and system that dynamically links contents of Websites to a directory record to display as a combined return from a search result

• US 20050131909A1
• Filed: 12/15/2004
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telecom Consulting Group NE Corporation
• Original Assignee: Telecom Consulting Group NE Corporation
• Inventors: Cavagnaro, James E., Erb, Daniel J., Tobey, Robert C.
• Granted Patent: US 7,711,743 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A search of information collected from a root URL (Websites, Web pages, documents or database fields) is dynamically linked back to a directory (contact) record where information from both data sets are displayed to the end user who is performing the search. Additional information can be displayed as it relates to each contact. The dynamic linking includes importing a plurality of directory (contact) records with assigned IDs into a first table of a database and defining a group of root URLs with assigned IDs into a second table of the database. Establishing a coordinating third table of the database to link each of the directory (contact) records with root URLs, thus allowing directory (contact) records to share root URLs. Each root URL is spidered to capture target content (all Web pages within a Website, documents within a directory or content within an individual document) and links the content found to the root URL. The content is parsed, broken down into text and stored in a fourth table of the database. Links between the first, second, and fourth tables are established in the coordinating third table. A response to a search request includes searching the first and fourth tables for a target containing corresponding data in the tables and the search term and, if a target with corresponding data is found, the target and the appropriate directory (contact) record(s) linked to the targets root URL is then displayed in response to the search request.

Claims

1. A method to dynamically link a directory (contact) record to a plurality of root URLs comprising the steps of:

a) importing a plurality of directory (contact) records with assigned IDs into a first table of a database;

b) defining a group of root URLs with assigned IDs into a second table of the database;

c) establishing a coordinating third table of the database to link said each of said directory (contact) records with said each of said root URLs thus allowing said directory (contact) records to share said root URLs;

d) spidering each of said root URLs and capturing the target content of each of said root URLs and any new targets linked to said root URLs as discovered during spidering;

e) parsing, breaking down into text and storing said content of each of said root URL and any linked targets into a fourth table of the database and inserting the original root URL ID to each record;

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of defining a group of root URLs comprises the step of collecting targets in said plurality of directory (contact) records, each of said targets corresponding to one of said group of root URLs.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said fourth table content includes a root URL for each of said group of targets, each of said targets comprising one of said root URLs in said plurality of directory (contact) records.

4. The method set forth in claim 1 further including the step of adding targets to said group of root URLs during said spidering operation, said additional targets comprising content found on a target being spidered, said found target also spidered and contents of said found target being captured, parsed, broken down into text and stored in said fourth table along with a root URL ID, said root URL ID being the one of said root URLs linked to said plurality of directory (contact) records from which said spidering operation was begun that produced said found target.

5. The method of claim 1 including the additional step of adding information to one of said plurality of records after said first table is initially formed.

6. The method set forth in claim 1 wherein said common data is root URLs.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein said root URLs are said root URLs in said second table and said root URLs in said first table.

8. A method of searching a directory (contact) record comprising a plurality of directory (contact) records stored in a first table of a database dynamically linked to a plurality of root URLs in a second table of said database by a third coordinating table of said database wherein each of said root URLs have been spidered and the contents of each of said root URL targets have been captured in a fourth table of said database and wherein links have been established between said plurality of root URLs and said plurality of directory (contact) records according to predetermined criteria, the method comprising the steps of:

a) receiving at least one search term in a search request and searching said targets in said fourth table for said at least one search term;

b) finding at least one directory (contact) record in said first table which is linked to any of said targets which has a content corresponding to said at least one search term; and

c) providing said at least one directory (contact) record to the entity providing said at least one search term.

9. The method of claim 8 further including the step of searching said directory (contact) records for a correspondence between the content of each of said directory (contact) records and providing any directory (contact) record for which a correspondence is found to the entity providing said at least one search term.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein said information provided to said entity providing said search request includes words surrounding said at least one search term found in said fourth table.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein said information provided to said entity providing said at least one search term includes information added to said at least one directory (contact) record after said first table is initially formed.