Network video guide and spidering
First Claim
1. A method of video spidering, comprising:
- traversing a set of uniform resource locators (URLs);
dynamically identifying a script containing a URL indicative of at least one video on a packet switched network, wherein the script comprises a software program;
parsing the identified script;
executing the parsed script to evaluate uniform resource locators, wherein the uniform resource locators include links to video content;
identifying video content referred to by the script;
generating a location identifier of the video content referred to by the script; and
storing the location identifier associated with the identified video content.
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Abstract
A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of video spidering, comprising:
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traversing a set of uniform resource locators (URLs); dynamically identifying a script containing a URL indicative of at least one video on a packet switched network, wherein the script comprises a software program; parsing the identified script; executing the parsed script to evaluate uniform resource locators, wherein the uniform resource locators include links to video content; identifying video content referred to by the script; generating a location identifier of the video content referred to by the script; and storing the location identifier associated with the identified video content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of video spidering, comprising:
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traversing a set of uniform resource locators (URLs); dynamically identifying a script containing a URL indicative of at least one video on a network; parsing the identified script; executing the parsed script; identifying a container file referred to by the script, wherein the container file includes two or more location identifiers, each location identifier corresponding to a different video, and wherein an identity of the container file is included as part of the script; parsing the identified container file; evaluating the parsed container file to identify a location identifier of video content; and storing the location identifier associated with the video content. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of video spidering, comprising:
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traversing a set of uniform resource locators (URLs); dynamically identifying a script containing a URL indicative of at least one video on a network; parsing the identified script; executing the parsed script; identifying a container file referred to by the script, wherein the container file includes two or more location identifiers associated with individual videos; parsing the identified container file; evaluating the parsed container file to identify a location identifier of video content; and storing the location identifier associated with the video content.
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