PUBLICATION SERVICE USING WEB PAGES AND WEB SEARCH ENGINES

• US 20080155388A1
• Filed: 12/22/2006
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Services Organization Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: CONWAY, Adrian Evans
• Granted Patent: US 7,599,936 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• 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 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

A server may receive publication information from a client and may create a unique key for the client. The server may generate one or more web pages that include the unique key, the publication information, and instructions for web crawlers not to index or crawl the publication information. In addition, the server may publish the web pages.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving publication information from a first client;

creating a unique key;

generating one or more web pages that include the unique key, the publication information, and instructions not to crawl or index the publication information; and

publishing the one or more web pages.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein generating the one or more web pages includes:

partitioning the publication information into portions;

encoding each portion of the publication information to enable error correction and error detection; and

writing each portion to a group of one or more web pages.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein publishing the one or more web pages includes linking the one or more web pages to enable a crawler to visit each web page that contains the unique key.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein publishing the one or more web pages further includes hosting the one or more web pages on more than one web server.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein publishing the one or more web pages includes posting the one or more web pages at one or more different web sites.

6. The method as in claim 1, wherein creating a unique key includes:

creating a piece of information as a candidate key; and

testing if the piece of information exists within a database of keys.

7. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

making the one or more web pages available for crawling or indexing by one or more search engines.

8. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting one or more web pages that include the publication information to a client that has the unique key.

9. The method as in claim 1, wherein the first client distributes the unique key to a second client to allow the second client to access the publication information included in the one or more web pages.

10. The method as in claim 9, wherein the second client obtains one or more addresses of one or more web pages that contain the unique key by sending a search query that includes the unique key to a search engine that has indexed the one or more web pages that contain the unique key.

11. A device comprising:

one or more processors to;

accept private information from a client;

produce a unique key;

format one or more web pages that include the unique key, the private information, and instructions for search engines not to index the private information; and

permit each web page that contains the unique key to be indexed by the search engines.

12. The device as in claim 11, wherein the formatted one or more web pages include at least one web page that contains at least a portion of the private information.

13. The device as in claim 12, wherein the at least one web page that contains at least a portion of the private information also contains the unique key.

14. The device as in claim 11, wherein the formatted one or more web pages include a web page that contains the unique key and one or more web pages that include at least a portion of the private information.

15. The device as in claim 11, wherein the web page that contains the key includes:

one or more links to one or more web pages that include at least a portion of the private information; and

the instructions for the search engines not to index the private information.

16. The device as in claim 11, further comprising a database for registering the key.

17. The device as in claim 11, wherein the instructions comprise meta tags.

18. The device as in claim 11, wherein a link to a web page that contains the unique key is embedded in a web page that the search engines indexes.

19. A device comprising:

means for accepting information from a client;

means for creating a unique key;

means for generating one or more web pages that include the unique key, the information, and an instruction for search engines not to download the information; and

means for publishing the one or more web pages.

20. The device as in claim 19, wherein the means for creating the unique key comprises:

means for creating a sequence of bits as a candidate key, and

means for testing if the candidate key is unique.

21. The device as in claim 19, wherein the unique key includes:

an image.