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Acquisition of Item Counts from Hosted Web Services

  • US 20120143894A1
  • Filed: 12/02/2010
  • Published: 06/07/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, at a web API server provided by a computing device, a statistics request from a client, the statistics request being a request to invoke an item counting method defined in an API provided by the web API server, the statistics request specifying a keyword string and multiple target data repositories, the keyword string comprising one or more keywords; and

    sending a statistics response to the client as a response to the statistics request, the statistics response specifying an item count, the item count indicating how many relevant items are in the target data repositories, each of the relevant items associated with at least one of the keywords in the keyword string.

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