Using RSS archives

• US 8,832,033 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2012
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James F. Moore
• Original Assignee: James F. Moore
• Inventors: Moore, James F
• Primary Examiner(s): Mahmoudi, Tony
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MERILYN P
• Application Number:
  US13/396,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150813A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 707/661, 707/664, 707/665, 707/667, 707/668
• US Class Current: 707/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

In some aspects, at least two different probes are applied to datafeed archives to derive information based on data in the archives. The probes are part of a probe plan to determine a result based on the derived information. The result is determined based on the derived information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

processing two or more independent RSS data feeds to generate two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives;

marking desired data to facilitate searching and retrieval for the desired data;

generating a search plan based on an input from a user;

applying at least two different sub-queries of the search plan to the two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives to derive information based on data in the two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives,

wherein at least one of the sub-queries is applied to at least two of the searchable RSS datafeed archives and at least two of the sub-queries are applied to a same searchable RSS datafeed archive; and

determining a result of the search based on the derived information from the at least two different sub-queries.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating metadata concerning the desired data that is marked.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising formatting the RSS searchable datafeed archives.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising generating and storing additional data not present in the two or more independent RSS feeds, the additional data relating to characteristics of the desired data or at least one of the independent RSS feeds.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating and serving by a computer an RSS feed that includes the result.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the result by at least one computer server for use in a real world application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the RSS searchable datafeed archives are market-specific.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the market-specific datafeed archives comprise one or more of a real estate datafeed archive, a medical datafeed archive and a financial datafeed archive.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the information derived from each of the sub-queries differs in structure or format, and wherein determining the result requires combining the results from the sub-queries.

10. A method comprising:

generating a search plan based on an input from a user, the search plan comprising at least two sub-queries differing from each other in structure or format;

applying the at least two different sub-queries of the search plan to two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives to derive information based on data in the two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives,

wherein at least one of the sub-queries is applied to at least two of the searchable RSS datafeed archives and at least two of the sub-queries are applied to a same searchable RSS datafeed archive; and

determining a result of the search based on the derived information from the at least two different sub-queries.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising processing two or more independent RSS data feeds to generate the two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising formatting the RSS searchable datafeed archives.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising marking desired data from the two or more independent RSS data feeds to facilitate searching and retrieval for the desired data in the two or more RSS searchable datafeed archives.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising generating metadata concerning the desired data that is marked.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising generating and storing additional data not present in the two or more independent RSS feeds, the additional data relating to characteristics of the desired data or at least one of the independent RSS feeds.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating and serving by a computer an RSS feed that includes the result.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing the result by at least one computer server for use in a real world application.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the RSS searchable datafeed archives are market-specific.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the market-specific datafeed archives comprise one or more of a real estate datafeed archive, a medical datafeed archive and a financial datafeed archive.