Searching and Aggregating Web Pages

• US 20150112960A1
• Filed: 01/06/2015
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Blekko Incorporated (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Markson, Michael, Skrenta, Rich, Lindahl, Gregory B., Srinivasan, Krishna, Sorrentino, Nicholas, Richards, Ann Lee
• Granted Patent: US 9,767,206 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Systems and/or methods for searching and aggregating internet web page updates. The system and/or method may further allow for customization of topics to update. Additionally, social media aspects of the system and/or method may allow for voting and commenting as well as sharing.

Claims

1. A method of aggregating internet web pages comprising:

at a server in communication with a database and a network,

receiving data including a link to an internet webpage, via the network;

analyzing the content of the linked webpage;

categorizing the linked webpage based on the webpage content;

in a category webpage, causing display of a summary of the linked webpage with summaries of other linked webpages in the same category;

allowing users, via the network, to access the category webpage and comment on the displayed linked webpage;

allowing users, via the network, to vote on the linked webpage,

wherein the vote is included in a rating of the linked webpage; and

causing display of, in the category webpage, the comment and the vote, in the summary of the linked webpage.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the summary includes representative portions of text and representative photos, from the linked webpage.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising, at the server, causing display of a home webpage, wherein the home webpage includes a link to the category web page in a menu of category webpages.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising, at the server,

allowing a user to log into the home page;

and

awarding a user point to the logged-in user, based on at least one of, the user comment, the user vote, user visits to a webpage, votes received for submitted links, comments received for submitted links, category creation, and social media links.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the receiving of the webpage link is from a search engine in communication with the server;

and

further comprising, at the search engine,

searching the network for webpage content based on a category; and

sending a link to the searched webpage to the server for display of a summary of the searched web page in a category page matching the category.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the summary is taken from at least one of, a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed of the linked webpage and text in the linked webpage.

7. A system for aggregating internet web pages comprising:

a server in communication with a database and a network, the server configured to,

receive data including a link to an internet webpage via the network;

analyze the content of the linked webpage;

categorize the linked webpage based on the analyzed webpage content;

cause display of, in a category webpage, a summary of the linked webpage with summaries of other linked webpages in the same category;

allow users, via the network, to access the category webpage and to comment on the linked webpage;

allow users, via the network, to vote on the linked webpage,

wherein the vote is included in a rating of the linked webpage; and

cause display in the category webpage of the comments, the votes, in the summary of the linked webpage.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the summary includes at least one of, from the linked webpage, representative portions of text and representative photos.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the server is further configured to, cause display of a home webpage, wherein the home webpage includes a link to the category web page in a menu of category webpages.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the server is further configured to,

allow a user to log into the home page;

and

award a user point to the logged-in user, based on at least one of, the user comment, the user vote, user visits to a webpage, votes received for submitted links, comments received for submitted links, category creation, and social media links.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the received internet webpage link is from a search engine in communication with the server.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the search engine is further configured to,

search the network for webpage content based on a category;

and

send a link to the searched webpage to the server for display of a summary of the searched web page in a category page matching the category.

13. The system of claim 9 wherein the home page includes display of tiles, the tiles including the categories.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the tiles are ordered according to, at least one of, rating, server defined order, user defined order, and time of category update.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the rating includes the user votes.

16. The system of claim 12 wherein the server is further configured to,

cause display of a search box in the category page;

allow the user to send a search query to the search engine via the search box; and

cause display of the search results, based on the search query.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the search query includes slashtags.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions thereon for a method of aggregating internet web pages, the method comprising:

at a server in communication with a database and a network,

receiving data including a link to an internet webpage, via the network;

analyzing the content of the linked webpage;

categorizing the linked webpage based on the webpage content;

in a category webpage, causing display of a summary of the linked webpage with summaries of other linked webpages in the same category;

allowing users, via the network, to access the category webpage and comment on the displayed linked webpage;

allowing users, via the network, to vote on the linked webpage,

wherein the vote is included in a rating of the linked webpage; and

causing display, in the category webpage, of the comment and the vote, in the summary of the linked webpage.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions thereon for a method of aggregating internet web pages of claim 18 wherein the summary includes representative portions of text and representative photos, from the linked webpage.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions thereon for a method of aggregating internet web pages of claim 18 further comprising, at the server,

causing display of a home webpage, wherein the home webpage includes a link to the category web page in a menu of category webpages;

allowing a user to log into the home page; and

awarding a user point to the logged-in user, based on at least one of, the user comment, the user vote, user visits to a webpage, votes received for submitted links, comments received for submitted links, category creation, and social media links.