SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING WEB SITES FOR DATA

• US 20070198489A1
• Filed: 11/03/2006
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YEH, CHIEN-FA, LEE, CHUNG-I, LI, LIANG-PU
• Application Number:
  US11/556,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20070198489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for searching Web sites for data. The method includes the steps of: reading search conditions; converting the search conditions into extensible markup language (XML) search queries; parsing the XML search queries and accordingly creating XML commands; creating a command queue; defining attributes of the XML commands; adding the XML commands onto the command queue according to the XML commands'"'"' respective attributes; executing the XML commands to search for specified data on the Web sites; determines whether any specified data have been found on the Web sites; and downloading Web pages containing the specified data if the specified data are found on the Web sites. A related system is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for searching Web sites for data, comprising:

a reading module configured for reading search conditions;

a converting module configured for converting the search conditions into extensible markup language (XML) search queries;

a parsing module configured for parsing the XML search queries and accordingly creating XML commands;

a command queue controlling module configured for creating a command queue, for defining attributes of the XML commands, and for adding the XML commands onto the command queue according to the XML commands'"'"' respective attributes; and

a searching module configured for executing the XML commands to search for specified data on the Web sites, and for downloading Web pages containing the specified data from the Web sites.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reading module is further configured for returning the Web pages downloaded in response to the search conditions.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the converting module is further configured for converting formats of the Web pages into the XML format.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the parsing module is further configured for creating XML sub-commands by parsing the Web pages converted.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the searching module is further configured for deleting the XML commands that have been executed from the command queue.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the command queue controlling module is further configured for creating a queue handle for the command queue.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the attributes of the XML commands control a sort order of the XML commands in the command queue.

8. A method for searching Web sites for data, comprising the steps of:

reading search conditions;

converting the search conditions into extensible markup language (XML) search queries;

parsing the XML search queries and accordingly creating XML commands;

creating a command queue;

defining attributes of the XML commands;

adding the XML commands onto the command queue according to the XML commands'"'"' respective attributes;

executing the XML commands to search for specified data on the Web sites;

determines whether any specified data have been found on the Web sites; and

downloading Web pages containing the specified data if the specified data are found on the Web sites.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of returning the Web pages downloaded in response to the search conditions.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of converting formats of the Web pages into the XML format.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of creating XML sub-commands by parsing the Web pages converted.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of deleting the XML commands that have been executed from the command queue.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the creating step comprising the step of creating a queue handle for the command queue.

14. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the attributes of the XML commands control a sort order of the XML commands in the command queue.

15. A system for searching Web sites for data, comprising:

a reading module configured for reading search conditions;

a converting module configured for converting the search conditions into search queries written in a programming language;

a parsing module configured for parsing the search queries and accordingly creating commands written in the programming language;

a command queue controlling module configured for creating a command queue, for defining attributes of the commands, and for adding the commands onto the command queue according to the commands'"'"' respective attributes; and

a searching module configured for executing the commands to search for specified data on the Web sites, and for downloading Web pages containing the specified data from the Web sites.

16. The system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the programming language is the extensible markup language.

17. The system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the converting module is further configured for converting formats of the Web pages into a format of the programming language.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the parsing module is further configured for creating sub-commands in the programming language by parsing the Web pages converted.

19. The system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the searching module is further configured for deleting the commands that have been executed from the command queue.