Mobile SiteMaps

• US 8,655,864 B1
• Filed: 06/11/2012
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Strohm, Alan C., Hu, Feng, Brawer, Sascha B., Ibel, Maximilian, Keller, Ralph M., Shivakumar, Narayanan, Gil, Elad
• Primary Examiner(s): LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE
• Application Number:
  US13/493,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20140046925A1
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 707/2, 707/3, 707/10, 707/709, 705/14, 709/224
• US Class Current: 707/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

accessing a mapping document that represents an organization of related network-accessible documents within a website, at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document being mobile content;

receiving an indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content;

selecting, based on the indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content, a mobile content crawling mode to crawl the network-accessible documents of the website that are mobile content;

crawling the website based on the mapping document to obtain information from the network-accessible documents, wherein the network-accessible documents that are mobile content are crawled in the mobile content crawling mode;

adding the information from at least some of the network-accessible documents to a search engine index;

receiving a search request from a mobile device; and

transmitting search results to the mobile device, the search results responsive to the search request and identified at least in part using information in the search engine index.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mapping document comprises a list of document identifiers.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a notification that the mapping document is available, wherein crawling the website is in response to the notification.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the notification includes the indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the notification includes an indication specifying that the mobile content is stored in one or more mobile document formats.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the notification includes an indication of a location of the mapping document.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a promotional item to the mobile device in combination with the search results.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the mapping document includes the indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content.

9. A computer implemented method, comprising:

accessing a mapping document that represents an organization of related network-accessible documents within a website, at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document being mobile content;

receiving an indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content;

selecting, based on the indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content, a mobile content crawling mode to crawl the network-accessible documents of the website that are mobile content;

crawling the website based on the mapping document to obtain information from the network-accessible documents, wherein the network-accessible documents that are mobile content are crawled in the mobile content crawling mode;

adding the information from at least some of the network-accessible documents to a search engine index;

receiving a search request from a mobile device;

transmitting search results to the mobile device, the search results responsive to the search request and identified at least in part using information in the search engine index; and

transmitting a promotional item to the mobile device in combination with the search results, the promotional item identified by an ad sever.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the promotional item is responsive to the search request.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising selecting the promotional item based on correspondence between the search request and at least one identifier of the promotional item.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating a webpage that includes the search results and the promotional item and transmitting the webpage to the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising receiving a notification that the mapping document is available, wherein crawling the website is in response to the notification.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the notification includes the indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the promotional item is identified based on first criteria and wherein the search results are identified based on second criteria, the first criteria being unique from the second criteria.

16. A system, comprising:

a network interface;

a memory storing a mapping document that represents an organization of related network-accessible documents within a website, at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document being mobile content;

a crawler programmed to crawl the website over the network interface based on the mapping document to obtain information from the network-accessible documents, wherein the crawler is programmed to;

receive an indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content;

select, based on the indication that at least some of the network-accessible documents whose organization is represented by the mapping document are mobile content, a mobile content crawling mode to crawl the network-accessible documents of the website that are mobile content; and

crawl the network-accessible documents being mobile content in the mobile content crawling mode and add the information from at least some of the network-accessible documents to a search engine index;

a search engine programmed to receive a search request from a mobile device and transmit search results to the mobile device that are responsive to the search request and that are identified at least in part using information in the search engine index.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising an ad sever programmed to provide a promotional item in combination with the search results.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the promotional item is responsive to the search request.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the promotional item is selected based on correspondence between the search request and at least one identifier of the promotional item.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the ad server selects the promotional item based on first criteria and wherein the search engine selects the search results based on second criteria, the first criteria being unique from the second criteria.