INDIRECT DATA SEARCHING ON THE INTERNET

• US 20130318064A1
• Filed: 05/22/2012
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eye Street Research LLC
• Original Assignee: Eye Street Research LLC
• Inventors: Atherton, David, Christie, Robert William, Massingill, Tate
• Granted Patent: US 8,832,066 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The present invention includes an Internet analysis process that includes initializing a data set, accessing a search engine to acquire search results, parsing the search results, rather than a native search engine indexable resource, to output a conclusion, and providing an updated data set. The present invention further includes an Internet analysis system that includes a data set initializer to initialize a data set, a search engine to acquire search results, a bot to parse the search results, rather than a native search engine indexable resource, to output a conclusion, and an updated date set.

Claims

1. An Internet analysis system, said system comprising:

an initial data set of input data including a series of entities, each of said entities characterized by a series of entity attributes;

a nonparty Internet search engine with a repository of stored content from search engine indexable Internet resources;

a search initializer, loaded with search keyword data derived from said entity attributes, adapted to access said search engine to generate, for at least one of said entities, a search result of search result entries, with search result entry data, queued according to policies of said search engine; and

a bot, loaded with evaluation criteria, adapted to parse said search result entry data, bypass native versions of said search engine indexable resources corresponding to said search result entries, to informationally evaluate said search result entry data to determine as an output an investigation conclusion concerning at least one of said entities; and

an updated data set derived from said initial data set as informed by said output of said bot.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said search keyword data includes keywords related to said conclusion.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said initial data set includes attributes corresponding to predetermined, uniform categories.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein said updated data set includes as at least one of said entity attributes said output of said bot.

5. The system of claim 3 wherein said bot captures information from said search result entry data as captured data.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein said updated data set includes captured data.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein said captured data includes a destination pointer comprising a data link identifying a search engine indexable Internet resource from said search result.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein said updated data set includes said captured data as at least one of said entity attributes.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said updated data set includes captured data as an entity.

10. The system of claim 1 further comprising a confidence detector adapted to evaluate said captured data to provide a confidence rating of said output of said bot.

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising a filter, adapted to review said output of said bot, manually loaded with at least one positive filtration criterion to automatically affect said output of said bot based on existence of said positive filtration criterion in association with said entity.

12. The system of claim 1 further comprising a filter, adapted to review said output of said bot, manually loaded with at least one negative filtration criterion to automatically affect said output of said bot based on existence of said negative filtration criterion in association with said entity.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein said output consists of a Boolean value.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein said updated data set consists of entities coupled with said entity attributes for which such output is true.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein said updated data set consists of entities coupled with said entity attributes for which such output is false.

16. An Internet analysis process comprising:

initializing an initial data set of input data including a series of entities, each of said entities characterized by a series of entity attributes;

accessing a nonparty Internet search engine with a repository of stored content from search engine indexable Internet resources;

searching said search engine with search keyword data from said entity attributes to generate, for at least one of said entities, a search result of search result entries, with search result entry data, queued according to policies of said search engine;

parsing said search result entry data with a bot, loaded with evaluation criteria, adapted to bypass native versions of said search engine indexable resources corresponding to said search result entries, to informationally evaluate said search result entry data to determine as an output an investigation conclusion concerning at least one of said entities; and

providing an updated data set derived from said initial data set as informed by said output of said bot.

17. The process of claim 16 wherein said providing step includes determining as said output a Boolean value.

18. The process of claim 17 wherein said providing step includes providing said updated data set that consists of entities which such output is true.

19. The process of claim 16 wherein said parsing step includes capturing information from said search result entry data as captured data and said providing step includes providing said updated data set with captured data as said entities.

20. The process of claim 16 wherein said parsing step includes capturing information from said search result entry data as captured data and said providing step includes providing said updated data set with captured data as said attributes.