Collaborative internet data mining system

• US 20050198116A1
• Filed: 08/19/2004
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: About Incorporated (IAC, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: About Incorporated (IAC, Inc.)
• Inventors: Anderson, Jim, Kurnit, Scott Philip, Maier, Elizabeth A., Germaise, Scott C., Taller, Olga, Day, William, Appleman, Kenneth H.
• Granted Patent: US 8,719,333 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A collaborative Internet data mining system for facilitating a group effort from a plurality of guides to the Internet, by automatically processing the information provided by the guides and thereby create a branded or uniform look and feel to the web sites supported by the plurality of guides.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A computer-based apparatus for collecting content for distribution to Internet users comprising:

a template system for providing a plurality of authors with one or more templates for the author to use to supply Internet content related to a topic in a taxonomy of topics;

a receiving system for receiving template-based files from the authors and associating the template-based file with a topic in the taxonomy of topics; and

a page server system for serving pages that include content from one or more template-based files and global content to Internet users.

6. The computer-based apparatus of claim 5 wherein the pages comprise HTML pages.

7. The computer-based apparatus of claim 5 wherein the page server system receives a request for a page associated with a topic in the taxonomy of topics and serves a page with content from an author associated with the topic.

8. The computer-based apparatus of claim 5 wherein the author is approved by an operator associated with the apparatus for one or more topics.

9. The computer-based apparatus of claim 5 further comprising a training submission system that enables an author to provide a template-based file and determine if the page to be generated based on the template-based file is acceptable.

10. The computer-based apparatus of claim 5 further comprising a search server for enabling an Internet user to search the pages associated with the taxonomy of topics, including the template-based files associated with those pages.

11. The computer-based apparatus of claim 5 further comprising a topic server system for enabling a user to receive a topic template for adding a topic to the taxonomy of topics.

12. A method for collecting content for distribution to Internet users comprising:

providing a plurality of authors with one or more templates for the author to use to supply Internet content related to a topic in a taxonomy of topics;

receiving template-based files from the authors and associating the template-based file with a topic in the taxonomy of topics; and

serving pages that include content from one or more template-based files and global content to Internet users.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the pages comprise HTML pages.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising receiving a request for a page associated with a topic in the taxonomy of topics and serves a page with content from an author associated with the topic.

15. The method of claim 12 wherein the author is approved by an operator associated with the apparatus for one or more topics.

16. The method of claim 12 further comprising providing a training submission system that enables an author to provide a template-based file and determine if the page to be generated based on the template-based file is acceptable.

17. The method of claim 12 further comprising enabling an Internet user to search the pages associated with the taxonomy of topics, including the template-based files associated with those pages.

18. The method of claim 12 further comprising enabling a user to receive a topic template for adding a topic to the taxonomy of topics.

19. A computer-based apparatus for providing content for distribution to Internet users comprising:

a template receiving system for receiving one or more templates from a central system for an author to use to supply Internet content related to a topic in a taxonomy of topics;

a template-based file transmission system for transmitting one or more template-based files from the author to a central system; and

a page receiving system for receiving a page from a central system that include content from one or more template-based files and global content to Internet users.

20. The computer-based apparatus of claim 19 wherein the pages comprise HTML pages.

21. The computer-based apparatus of claim 19 further comprising a page requesting system for transmitting a page request for a page associated with topic in the taxonomy of topics.

22. The computer-based apparatus of claim 19 wherein the author is approved by an operator associated with the apparatus for one or more topics.

23. The computer-based apparatus of claim 19 further comprising a topic addition system for enabling a user to add a request for a new topic to be added to the taxonomy of topics.