METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING A SITE ON A WIDE AREA NETWORK
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Abstract
A method and system for organizing and displaying information about Internet Web pages on Web maps are disclosed. Web maps display a summary of the information that a Web page provides access to, in a format that facilitates a rapid assessment of what may be accessed through a Web site'"'"'s home page, or through any Web page on the Web site. Preferably, Web maps are displayed on a Web page, or within a frame of a Web page, by an Internet browser application. A set of Web maps may be automatically generated by a search engine or directory in response to a user'"'"'s search request. Alternatively, a user may request that a Web map be produced for a particular Web page of interest. The Web maps are preferably generated by a Web server, or by an application running in the background of a user'"'"'s computer, so that the user may perform other tasks on the user'"'"'s computer while the Web maps are being generated.
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69 Claims
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50. A method for mapping related web pages, comprising:
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receiving related web pages from a first server; parsing the related web pages at a second server to generate page properties comprising a page address, page title, page file size, and metatags, for each page in the related web pages; storing the page properties in a database; parsing the related web pages at the second server to identify objects that exist on the target pages; defining an object location on page for each of the objects that exist on the target pages; defining object data for each of the objects that exist on the target pages, wherein the object data comprises at least one textual phrase for text object types, thumbnail image data for each graphical object type, and an object classification for each hyperlink target object; and storing the object data in the database for use in generating a map page wherein the object data is arranged according to respective object location on page for each of the objects that exist on the target pages. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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60. A computer-readable medium, comprising:
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instructions to receive interlinked web pages; instructions to analyze the interlinked web pages to generate page properties comprising a page address, page title, page file size, and metatags, for each page in the set of target pages, and to identify objects that exist on the target pages; instructions to define object properties for the objects that exist on the target pages, wherein object properties for text object types comprise an object location on page, and at least one textual phrase, object properties for graphical object types comprise an object location on page and thumbnail image data for each graphical object and object properties for hyperlink object types comprise an object location on page and an object classification for what each hyperlink object links to, for each hyperlink object; and instructions to store the page properties and the object properties in the database for generating map pages wherein the object properties are arranged according to their respective properties of object location on page. - View Dependent Claims (61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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