METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND MONITORING INTERNET TRADEMARK USAGE
First Claim
1. A method of searching an reporting an incidence of at least one of a trademark, a tradename, a celebrity name, and a famous name on an Internet, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving the at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name or famous name to be searched;
creating a search string including the at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, or famous name;
identifying a URL address of a Web page on the Internet to be searched;
accessing and searching the Web page for hits corresponding to the search string; and
providing search results of identified hits within the Web page.
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Abstract
A system for searching and reporting an incidence of at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, and/or famous name on the Internet, which includes a computer system having a connection to the Internet, and a software program executing on the computer system. The software program is adapted to receive an input of at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, and famous name to be searched. The software program then creates a search string including at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, and famous name. The software program also receives a URL address of a Web page on the Internet to be searched. The software program accesses and searches the Web page for hits corresponding to the search string, and then provides the search results of identified hits within the Web page.
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37 Claims
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1. A method of searching an reporting an incidence of at least one of a trademark, a tradename, a celebrity name, and a famous name on an Internet, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving the at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name or famous name to be searched;
creating a search string including the at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, or famous name;
identifying a URL address of a Web page on the Internet to be searched;
accessing and searching the Web page for hits corresponding to the search string; and
providing search results of identified hits within the Web page.
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17. A method of reporting use of a trademark on the Internet, the method comprising:
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receiving, at a computer system, a trademark to be searched;
generating, at the computer system, a search string based on the trademark;
identifying one or more web pages containing the trademark;
accessing, from the computer system, the one or more web pages;
downloading the one or more pages for analysis;
analyzing, at the computer system, a plurality of web page components of each of the one or more web pages to identify instances of the trademark;
creating, at the computer system, a report for a user, based on an analysis of the plurality of web page components of each of the one or more web pages, wherein the report comprises an entry corresponding to one of the one or more web pages, and wherein the entry shows, for each web page component of the web page, whether the web page component includes the trademark; and
providing the report for display to the user. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A computer system for reporting use of a trademark on the Internet, the computer system comprising:
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a processor; and
a storage medium in communication with the processor, the storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising a set of instructions executable by the processor, the set of instructions comprising;
instructions for receiving, at the computer system, a trademark to be searched;
instructions for generating, at the computer system, a search string based on the trademark;
instructions for identifying one or more web pages containing the trademark;
instructions for accessing, from the computer system, the one or more web pages;
instructions for downloading the one or more pages for analysis;
instructions for analyzing, at the computer system, a plurality of web page components of each of the one or more web pages to identify instances of the trademark;
instructions for creating, at the computer system, a report for a user, based on an analysis of the plurality of web page components of each of the one or more web pages, wherein the report comprises an entry corresponding to one of the one or more web pages, and wherein the entry shows, for each web page component of the web page, whether that web page component includes the trademark; and
instructions for providing the report for display to the user.
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37. An apparatus, comprising:
a storage medium having stored thereon a software program comprising instructions executable by a computer system, the set of instructions comprising;
instructions for receiving, at the computer system, a trademark to be searched;
instructions for generating, at the computer system, a search string based on the trademark;
instructions for identifying one or more web pages containing the trademark;
instructions for accessing, from the computer system, the one or more web pages;
instructions for downloading the one or more pages for analysis;
instructions for analyzing, at the computer system, a plurality of web page components of each of the one or more web pages to identify instances of the trademark;
instructions for creating, at the computer system, a report for a user, based on an analysis of the plurality of web page components of each of the one or more web pages, wherein the report comprises an entry corresponding to one of the one or more web pages, and wherein the entry shows, for each web page component of the web page, whether the web page component includes the trademark; and
instructions for providing the report for display to the user.
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