Server-side web summary generation and presentation
DCFirst Claim
1. An Internet Portal, comprising:
- an Internet-connected server;
a list of addresses of Internet sites associated with a specific person, which sites store information specific to the person; and
a software suite executing on the server, the software suite including a set of gathering spitware agents, with at least one gatherer agent dedicated to each of the Internet sites;
wherein the Portal accomplishes a gathering cycle by accessing individual ones of the Internet sites, authenticating too each site accessed as the person, and the gathering agent dedicated to each site accessed extracts data from that site.
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Abstract
A portal server includes a software agent configured to do summary searches for subscribers based on Internet destinations provided by the subscribers, to retrieve information from such destinations based on pre-programmed site information, and to download the summary information to the subscriber. The destinations and the nature of the information to be retrieved is pre-programmed. There is further a configuration and intitiation interface for a subscriber to set up and start a summary search. In some cases the summary searches are configured for individual clients as templates stored and retrieved at the Internet-connected server. Also in some cases retrieved information is immediately sent to the subscriber, and in other situations such information is saved at the portal to be retrieved by a subscriber at a later time. In preferred embodiments of the invention autologins are accomplished for a subscriber at Internet destinations by use of pre-stored configuration information.
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1. An Internet Portal, comprising:
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an Internet-connected server;
a list of addresses of Internet sites associated with a specific person, which sites store information specific to the person; and
a software suite executing on the server, the software suite including a set of gathering spitware agents, with at least one gatherer agent dedicated to each of the Internet sites;
wherein the Portal accomplishes a gathering cycle by accessing individual ones of the Internet sites, authenticating too each site accessed as the person, and the gathering agent dedicated to each site accessed extracts data from that site. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. In an Internet Portal system, a method for gathering data specific to a person from a plurality of Internet sites storing data specific to that person, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) initiating a gathering cycle accessing individual ones of the plurality of sites;
(b) authenticating to the sites as the person; and
(c) executing a software gathering agent at each site accessed to gather data from the site, the gathering agent dedicated to each site accessed. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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