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Job categorization system and method

  • US 7,702,674 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2005
  • Issued: 04/20/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system comprising:

  • a plurality of processors for managing capture and processing of job listing information data captured through a data network from a plurality of job related sources for compilation into a searchable data structure;

    an administrative portal module implemented on one of the plurality of processors for providing system administration and operational control through a network interface;

    a scraping management module implemented on one of the plurality of processors for coordinating operation of and communication between one or more job scraping engines to obtain scraped job information data sets from corporate career sites and job boards identified by a site management module in the administrative portal module and store the scraped data sets in a database, each scraped data set comprising data fields;

    a quality management module implemented on one of the plurality of processors coupled to the scraping management module for comparing the data fields of each scraped job data set stored in the database with predetermined quality rules, wherein the quality rules include document rules, and wherein if the data set fails one or more of the document rules, the data set will not be indexed in the database and the data set will be flagged for quality review;

    a job listing data categorization module implemented on one of the plurality of processors operable to examine and categorize each job data set stored in the database into one or more predetermined job categories based upon a volume of the scraped job data sets and return categorized job data sets to the database; and

    a search bank synchronizer implemented on one of the plurality of processors for communicating with the database for compiling and transferring categorized job data sets from the database to a job search bank.

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