Indirect data searching on the internet

• US 8,832,067 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2012
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eye Street Research LLC
• Original Assignee: Eye Street Research LLC
• Inventors: Atherton, David, Christie, Robert William, Massingill, Tate
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHONG H
• Application Number:
  US13/478,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 707/709, 707/710, 707/754, 707/755, 707/E17.108
• US Class Current: 707/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

Abstract

The present invention includes an Internet analysis system that includes a data set initializer to initialize a data set, a search engine to acquire search results, and a bot to parse the search results, rather than a native search engine indexable resource, to output a conclusion.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented Internet analysis system, said system comprising:

a processor, coupled to a nontransitory computer-readable storage medium memory, for executing the following program constituents;

an initial data set of input data, in said memory, including a series of entities, each of said entities characterized by a series of entity attributes;

a nonparty Internet search engine, that accepts free-form text entry as search criteria, with a repository of content, stored in a search engine nontransitory computer-readable storage medium, from search engine indexable Internet resources that exist independently of said search engine as native search engine indexable Internet resources;

a search initializer, loaded with search keyword data derived from said entity attributes, adapted to access said search engine to generate, for at least one of said entities, a search result of search result entries, with search result entry data, queued according to policies of said search engine;

a bot, loaded with evaluation criteria including at least one key text element, adapted to parse said search result for comparison of said evaluation criteria with text elements of said search result, bypass said native search engine indexable resources corresponding to said search result entries, to informationally evaluate said search result with evaluation criteria to determine as an output an investigation conclusion concerning at least one of said entities; and

a filter, adapted to review said output of said bot, manually loaded with at least one positive filtration criterion to automatically affect said output of said bot based on existence of said positive filtration criterion in association with said entity,

wherein said search result entries constitute abbreviated synopses of said native search engine indexable resources, said search result entries both selected and abbreviated according to policies of said search engine.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said entity attributes include at least one attribute corresponding to inherent characteristics of said entity.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said search keyword data includes keywords related to said conclusion.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said initial data set includes attributes corresponding to predetermined, uniform categories.

10. The system of claim 1 further comprising a confidence detector adapted to evaluate said captured data to provide a confidence rating of said output of said bot.

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising a filter, adapted to review said output of said bot, manually loaded with at least one negative filtration criterion to automatically affect said output of said bot based on existence of said negative filtration criterion in association with said entity.

5. The system of 1 further comprising an updated data set derived from said initial data set as informed by said output of said bot.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein said updated data set includes as at least one of said entity attributes said output of said bot.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein said bot captures information from said search result entry data as captured data.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein said updated data set includes said captured data as at least one of said entity attributes of said updated data set.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein said captured data includes a destination pointer comprising a data link identifying a search engine indexable Internet resource from said search result.

12. An Internet tax compliance system for identifying taxation events related to a transaction, said system comprising:

a processor, coupled to a nontransitory computer-readable storage medium memory, for executing the following program constituents;

an initial data set of input data, said memory, including a series of property owner entities, each of said property owner entities characterized by a series of property owner attributes;

a nonparty Internet search engine, that accepts free-form text entry as search criteria, with a repository of content, stored in a search engine nontransitory computer-readable storage medium, from search engine indexable Internet resources that exist independently of said search engine as native search engine indexable Internet resources;

a search initializer, loaded with search keyword data derived from said property owner attributes, adapted to access said search engine to generate, for at least one of said property owner entities, a search result of search result entries, with a search result entry data, queued according to policies of said search engine;

a bot, loaded with evaluation criteria including at least one key text element related to said transaction, adapted to parse said search result for comparison of said evaluation criteria with text elements of said search result, bypass said native search engine indexable resources corresponding to said search result entries, to informationally evaluate said search result with said evaluation criteria to determine as an output an investigation conclusion of whether certain of said property owner entities have engaged in said transaction; and

a filter, adapted to review said output of said bot, manually loaded with at least one filtration criterion selected from a group consisting of a positive filtration criterion, a negative filtration criterion, and combinations thereof to automatically affect said output of said bot based on existence of said positive filtration criterion in association with said entity,

wherein said search result entries constitute abbreviated synopses of said native search engine indexable resources, said search result entries both selected and abbreviated according to policies of said search engine.

13. The system of claim 12 further comprising an updated data set comprising property owner entities that have engaged in said transaction.

14. The system of claim 12 wherein said search keyword data includes keywords related to said transaction.

15. The system of claim 12 wherein said initial data set includes attributes corresponding to predetermined, uniform categories.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein said initial data set includes inherent attributes.

17. A computer-implemented Internet analysis system, said system comprising:

a processor, coupled to a nontransitory computer-readable storage medium memory, for executing the following program constituents;

an initial data set of input data, in said memory, including a series of entities, each of said entities characterized by a series of entity attributes;

a nonparty Internet search engine, that accepts free-form text entry as search criteria, with a repository of content, stored in a search engine nontransitory computer-readable storage medium, from search engine indexable Internet resources that exist independently of said search engine as native search engine indexable Internet resources;

a search initializer, loaded with search keyword data derived from said entity attributes, adapted to access said search engine to generate, for at least one of said entities, a search result of search result entries, with search result entry data, queued according to policies of said search engine;

a bot, loaded with evaluation criteria including at least one key text element, adapted to parse said search result for comparison of said evaluation criteria with text elements of said search result, bypass said native search engine indexable resources corresponding to said search result entries, to informationally evaluate said search result with evaluation criteria to determine as an output an investigation conclusion concerning at least one of said entities; and

a filter, adapted to review said output of said bot, manually loaded with at least one negative filtration criterion to automatically affect said output of said bot based on existence of said negative filtration criterion in association with said entity,

wherein said search result entries constitute abbreviated synopses of said native search engine indexable resources, said search result entries both selected and abbreviated according to policies of said search engine.