System and method for contextual correlation of web document content
First Claim
1. A system for correlating web page text with at least one of a link destination and dynamic document content, said system comprising:
- a context engine suitably adapted to perform contextual analysis of at least a portion of said web page text in order to identify at least one textual component as a candidate for correlation; and
a correlation engine suitably adapted to mark-up said textual component to indicate that said textual component is correlated to at least one of said link destination and said dynamic document content.
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Abstract
An exemplary system and method for contextually correlating web page document text is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a context engine for analyzing at least a portion of web page document content in order to identify textual components therein as correlation candidates; and a correlation engine for marking-up or otherwise identifying textual components in association with related keywords and/or link destinations. Disclosed features and specifications may be variously controlled, adapted or otherwise optionally modified to improve correlation and/or embedded markup of web page document content for any application or operating environment. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention generally provide enhanced online searching and advertising capabilities.
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1. A system for correlating web page text with at least one of a link destination and dynamic document content, said system comprising:
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a context engine suitably adapted to perform contextual analysis of at least a portion of said web page text in order to identify at least one textual component as a candidate for correlation; and
a correlation engine suitably adapted to mark-up said textual component to indicate that said textual component is correlated to at least one of said link destination and said dynamic document content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for contextual correlation of web page document content, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing at least a portion of content from a web page document;
optionally parsing at least a portion of said document content;
performing a contextual analysis of at least a portion of said optionally parsed document content in order to identify at least one text component of said document content as a candidate for correlation;
correlating said document text component to at least one of a keyword and an associated link destination ; and
adding at least one identifying element to the document content to provide an indication that said text component is correlated to at least one of said keyword and said associated link destination. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for processing web page document content, said system comprising:
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a web content publisher;
said publisher providing at least a portion of web document content for correlation analysis;
said publisher optionally configured with a database for at least one of storing and serving said web document content;
a keyword management agent;
an advertiser, said advertiser providing at least one keyword to said agent, said keyword associated with at least one destination link;
said agent suitably configured to access said web document content;
said agent suitably configured for optionally parsing at least a portion of said web document content;
said agent suitably configured for performing contextual analysis of at least a portion of said optionally parsed document content in order to identify at least one text component of said document content as a candidate for correlation;
at least one of said agent and said publisher suitably configured for correlating said document text component to at least one of said keyword and said associated destination link;
at least one of said agent and said publisher suitably configured for adding at least one identifying element to the web document content to provide an indication that said document text component is correlated to at least one of said keyword and said associated destination link; and
said identifying element optionally comprising at least one of an underline, a double underline, a strike-through, a superscript, a subscript, an italicized font, a bold font, capitalization, case, color, shape, a pop-up window, a DHTML layer, status bar text, sound, animation, a video clip, an image, a variant cursor graphic, and an icon. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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