METHOD OF A WEB BASED PRODUCT CRAWLER FOR PRODUCTS OFFERING

• US 20140222621A1
• Filed: 05/17/2012
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hirenkumar Nathalal Kanani
• Original Assignee: Hirenkumar Nathalal Kanani
• Inventors: Kanani, Hirenkumar Nathalal
• Application Number:
  US14/130,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222621A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.62
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of a product crawler having relatively simple automatic program that systematically fetches all the hyperlinks from the view source of the web pages of specific URL or website that has been registered on the service provider'"'"'s database server through a service provider'"'"'s website and therein the said service provider'"'"'s website of which a product search engine being embedded for searching the products that has been offered. The product crawler further analyses the said hyperlinks and then crawls and extracts only their product information related data such as title, description, image, price, model number and save them in the service provider'"'"'s database to produce finally a product related data index in the search engine repository to display the product related information for products offering and marketing during when user makes substantially same product related query from the service provider'"'"'s website.

Claims

1. A Method of a Web Based Product Crawler for Products Offering and marketing the products of a customer to store a product related information data available in the customer'"'"'s website on to a service provider'"'"'s database and which being coupled with a search engine comprising the following steps;

a. carrying out a registration of the customer'"'"'s business details and web URL details by entering customer'"'"'s name, address, website (URL) and web store name for creating a new web store in the service provider'"'"'s database server before initiating a crawler program of said product crawler;

b. completing the registration and then generating and outputting the registration details along with said web store name for the customer'"'"'s record when said web store name is available;

c. selecting the available option for the customer having registered website;

d. initiating the crawler program of said product crawler to execute a first process and wherein said first process includes the following steps;

e. checking availability of the registered website of the customer in the service provider'"'"'s database and when said website is not available then ending the first process;

f. in case when said registered website is available for crawling then checking and identifying a status for initiating the link fetching from webpage of the registered website and when said status identified by the product crawler is completed then ending the first process;

g. fetching all the links corresponds to href (hypertext reference) tag in the html page of said view source during when status identified by the crawler program is pending;

h. saving said fetched links into the service provider'"'"'s database;

i. checking a status for completion of said link fetching and when the status is completed then updating the status as complete;

j. completion of the fetching said links and ending the first process and there by completing the said status during when said status for fetching is identified by the crawler is pending;

k. checking the schedule arrangement for going back to initiate the first process for recrawling, as there is a chance of new updated product information data in the customer'"'"'s website and when such schedule is arranged then continuing the first process otherwise starting the second process of the product crawler automatically;

l. checking availability of product related html tag data corresponds to specific database fields in the service provider'"'"'s database such as title, description, image, price and model no (if any) and when said data is not available then terminating the second process;

m. crawling the links of said product related database fields during when said html tag data is available in the service provider'"'"'s database for the product crawling;

1. wherein into the service provider'"'"'s database said specific database field being entered before starting of the second process;

n. saving only those said entered specific database fields in the service provider'"'"'s database server to produce product related data index for repositioning and displaying the product related information through the search engine for said products offering and marketing during when a user searches his desired product from the service provider'"'"'s website;

o. ending of the second process and thereby terminating the product crawler eventually.

2. A Method of a Web Based Product Crawler for Products Offering as claimed in claim 1, wherein the customer means any merchant and the service is provided for only the registered customer having website.

3. A Method of a Web Based Product Crawler for Products Offering as claimed in claims 1 to 3 is substantially as herein described with reference to the forgoing description and accompanying drawings.