INDIRECT DATA SEARCHING ON THE INTERNET

• US 20130318066A1
• 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 8,832,068 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, and parsing the search results, rather than a native search engine indexable resource, to output a conclusion.

Claims

1. 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; and

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.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein said searching step includes searching via said search engine with search keyword data including keywords related to said conclusion.

3. The process of claim 1 further comprising providing an updated data set derived from said initial data set as informed by said output of said bot.

4. The process of claim 3 wherein said providing step includes providing said updated data set with data related to said output of said bot as at least one of said entity attributes of said updated data set.

5. The process of claim 3 wherein said parsing step includes capturing information from said search result entry data as captured data.

6. The process of claim 5 wherein providing step includes providing said updated data set with captured data as at least one of said entity attributes of said updated data set.

7. The process of claim 5 further comprising scoring said output of said bot with a confidence detector adapted to evaluate said captured data to provide a confidence rating of said output of said bot.

8. The process of claim 5 wherein said capturing step includes capturing as captured data a destination pointer comprising a data link identifying a search engine indexable Internet resource from said search result.

9. The process of claim 1 wherein said parsing step further includes filtering said output of said bot with a filter 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.

10. The process of claim 1 wherein said parsing step further includes filtering said output of said bot with a filter 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.

11. An Internet tax compliance process for identifying taxable transactions, said process comprising:

initializing an initial data set of property owner entities comprising at least one predetermined category of entity attributes defining said property owner entity;

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 property owner entities, a search result of search result entries, with search result entry data, queued according to policies of said search engine; and

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 of whether certain of said property owner entities have engaged in said transaction.

12. The process of claim 11 wherein said searching step includes searching said search engine with search keyword data including keywords related to said transaction.

13. The process of claim 11 further comprising providing an updated data set derived from said initial data set as informed by said output of said bot.

14. The process of claim 13 wherein said providing step include providing an updated data set comprising property owner entities concluded as said output to have engaged in said transaction.

15. The process of claim 14 wherein said parsing step further includes filtering said output of said bot with a filter 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 property owner entity.

16. The process of claim 13 wherein said parsing step further includes filtering said output of said bot with a filter 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 property owner entity.

17. The process of claim 11 wherein said providing step includes providing said updated data set with data related to said output of said bot as at least one of said attributes of said updated data set.

18. The process of claim 12 wherein said parsing step includes capturing information from said search result entry data as captured data.

19. The process of claim 18 wherein said providing step includes providing said updated data set with captured data as at least one of said attributes of said updated data set.

20. The process of claim 18 further comprising scoring said output of said bot with a confidence detector adapted to evaluate said captured data to provide a confidence rating of said output of said bot.