Method for providing and exchanging search terms between internet site promoters

• US 7,076,497 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2002
• Issued: 07/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Emergency 24 Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Emergency 24 Incorporated
• Inventors: Donteverde, Monte
• Primary Examiner(s): Rodriguez, Paul L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): OSBORNE, LUKE R
• Application Number:
  US10/065,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20030061219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• Field of Search: 707/7, 707/2, 707/104.1, 707/102
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A method of assigning keywords to an Internet site or page, comprising the steps of providing a topical category database, assigning at least one keyword to the predefined topical category, providing an Internet site and page database containing information relative to at least one Internet site or page, assigning each Internet site or page to at least one predefined topical category, and assigning each Internet site at least one keyword contained within the keyword list for the site assigned topical category.

Claims

1. A method of assigning keywords to an Internet site or Internet page, comprising the steps of:

providing a topical category database, wherein said topical category database contains at least one predefined topical category;

assigning at least one keyword to said predefined topical category, thereby creating a keyword list for said predefined topical categories;

providing an Internet site and Internet page database, wherein said Internet site and Internet page database contains information relative to at least one Internet site or Internet page and is assembled without the use of keywords from the keyword list;

assigning each said Internet site to at least one said predefined topical category, thereby creating a site assigned topical category; and

assigning each said Internet site at least one keyword contained within said keyword list for said site assigned topical category.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of assigning each said Internet page at least one keyword contained within said keyword list for said page assigned topical category.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of said predefined topical categories has a title and a brief synopsis description.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of assigning at least one keyword to said predefined topical category comprises assigning at least one keyword to said predefined topical category based on relatedness between said keyword and said predefined topical category.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of adding any keywords previously assigned to said Internet site to said keyword list for said site assigned topical category.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of assigning each said Internet site to at least one said predefined topical category, thereby creating a site assigned topical category, comprises the steps of:

reviewing any previously assigned keywords contained within the meta-tag field of said Internet site;

matching said previously assigned keywords to keywords contained within said keyword list; and

assigning said Internet site to the predefined topical category whose keyword list contains matching keywords.

7. A method of assigning keywords to an Internet site or Internet page, comprising the steps of:

providing a topical category database, wherein said topical category database contains at least one predefined topical category;

assigning at least one keyword to said predefined topical category, thereby creating a keyword list for said predefined topical categories;

providing an Internet site and Internet page database, wherein said Internet site and Internet page database contains information relative to at least one Internet site or Internet page and is assembled without use of keywords from the keyword list;

assigning each said Internet site to at least one said predefined topical category, thereby creating a site assigned topical category;

assigning each said Internet site at least one keyword contained within said keyword list for said site assigned topical category; and

permitting keyword searching for an Internet site or Internet page having information relative to such Internet site or Internet page within the Internet site and Internet page database based on the at least one keyword assigned to each Internet site.