System and Method for Maintaining Persistent Links to Information on the Internet

• US 20090106270A1
• Filed: 10/17/2007
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jog, Mandar U., Newman, Scott W., Shukla, Shreyansh, Shukla, Saurabh
• Granted Patent: US 8,909,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for maintaining persistent links to information stored on a network. Information elements are tagged and their original network location is saved as a hyperlink. The tagged information elements are then acquired at the original network location by a search engine crawler, indexed by a search engine, and stored in an information location index. The tagged information elements are periodically submitted to the search engine to generate search results. Comparison operations are performed to determine the search results comprising the closest-matching information elements and their current network location. The network location stored in the hyperlink is replaced with the current network location if it is not the same.

Claims

1. A computer-implementable method for maintaining persistent links to information stored on a network, comprising:

tagging a first plurality of information elements linked to a first network location;

associating said first network location with a hyperlink;

using a search engine to perform a search using said first plurality of tagged information elements, thereby generating a plurality of individual search results, each individual search result comprising search result information elements and a search result network location;

processing said plurality of search results to obtain an individual search result comprising search result information elements matching said first plurality of tagged information elements; and

associating said hyperlink with said individual search result network location if said individual search result network location is different from said first network location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

using a search engine crawler to provide said plurality of tagged information elements to said search engine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of individual search results are processed using fuzz, logic operations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said hyperlink is used as a bookmark.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of tagged information elements comprises key words.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said hyperlink comprises a uniform resource identifier.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said hyperlink comprises a uniform resource identifier.

7. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer-usable medium being coupled to the data bus. comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for;

tagging a first plurality of information elements linked to a first network location;

associating said first network location with a hyperlink;

using a search engine to perform a search using said first plurality of tagged information elements. thereby generating a plurality of individual search results, each individual search result comprising search result information elements and a search result network location;

processing said plurality of search results to obtain an individual search result comprising search result information elements matching said first plurality of tagged information elements; and

associating said hyperlink with said individual search result network

location if said individual search result network location is different from said first network location.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising computer code configured for using a search engine crawler to provide said plurality of tagged information elements to said search engine.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said plurality of individual search results are processed using fuzzy logic operations.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein said hyperlink is used as a bookmark.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein said plurality of tagged information elements comprises key words.

13. A computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

tagging a first plurality of information elements linked to a first network location;

associating said first network, location with a hyperlink using a search engine to perform a search using said first plurality of tagged information elements, thereby generating a plurality of individual search results, each individual search result comprising search result information elements and a search result network location;

processing said plurality of search results to obtain an individual search result comprising search result information elements matching said first plurality of tagged information elements; and

associating said hyperlink with said individual search result network location if said individual search result network location is different from said first network location.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said computer executable instructions are further configured for using a search engine crawler to provide said plurality of tagged information elements to said search engine.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein said plurality of individual search results are processed using fuzzy logic operations.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein said hyperlink is used as a bookmark.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein said plurality of tagged information elements comprises key words.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein said hyperlink comprises a uniform resource identifier.

19. The computer usable medium of claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are deployable to a client computer from a server at a remote location.

20. The computer usable medium or claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are provided by a service provider to a customer on an on-demand basis.