ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED DATA

• US 20110258536A1
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aloft Media, LLC (Oso IP, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Stragent, LLC (Oso IP, LLC)
• Inventors: Monsarrat, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 8,352,419 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0217 involving input on products or services in exchange for incentives or rewards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A system for automatically locating and data-typing information originating from many Web pages, and then collecting that information in a database. The database is then made available via an online data marketplace which allows users from different organizations to buy and sell related data, associated advertisements, and access to the communities of end-users who may also view advertisements and make purchases.

Claims

1. A method for extracting information from a collection of source pages, comprising:

identify a schema for a domain that defines data relationships and data types expected for source pages in a given domain;

for a specific source page,

creating a template associated with the source page;

allowing a user to identify a region using the source page; and

for the identified region, using user input to determine a data type and inter-relationship to other data.

2. A method as in claim 1 further comprising:

accepting user input identifying the highlighted region;

examining the schema; and

displaying a list of likely data types.

3. A method as in claim 1 additionally comprising:

for a plurality of origin pages in the domain;

matching the template to the source page to identify data elements in the source page that match the annotated data in the template; and

storing data elements in a database associated with the domain, based on the schema.