Method and system for mapping and searching the internet and displaying the results in a visual form

• US 7,496,558 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Issued: 02/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Accessify, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: E-Nvent Usa, Inc.
• Inventors: Weiss, Dov, Segev, Aviv
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Uyen T.
• Application Number:
  US11/453,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277200A1
• Time in Patent Office: 986 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 3, 707/10, 707/104.1, 709/217, 345/418, 345/419
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9027 Trees
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for visually presenting a set of properties of a web site, which comprises: (a) predefining within a provider'"'"'s search engine a set of properties and assigning to each property a visual symbol; (b) using a spider program, visiting by said provider'"'"'s search engine each web site and determining those properties from said set that are characteristic to that web site; (c) associating by said provider'"'"'s search engine with each web site those symbols corresponding to said determined properties; (d) forming for each web site a corresponding combined visual representation of the web site based on said associated symbols; and (e) when listing search results to a user, including the combined visual representation for each web site respectively.

Claims

1. A method for visually presenting a set of properties of a web site, comprising:

predefining within a provider'"'"'s search engine a set of properties and assigning to each property a visual symbol;

using a spider program, visiting by said provider'"'"'s search engine each web site and determining those properties from said set that are characteristic to that web site;

associating by said provider'"'"'s search engine with each web site those symbols corresponding to said determined properties;

forming for each web site a corresponding combined visual representation of the web site based on said associated symbols; and

when listing search results to a user, including the combined visual representation for each web site respectively.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said set of properties comprises one or more parameters relating to said site'"'"'s importance, including:

the site'"'"'s importance, nature of the site'"'"'s owner, existence of an e-store within said site, existence of a “

chat room”

within said site, existence of a forum within said site, existence of multimedia file(s) and/or their amount and/or size within said site, frequently used keywords in textual data of said site, whether said site is “

official,”

essence of said site, and/or the amount of information included within the site.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said combined visual presentation is presented in 2D or 3D.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said combined web site representation is a building.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein a group of web sites is presented as a street, and each web site in said group is presented as a building within the street.