Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Pivia, Inc.

F5 Networks, Inc.

Sudhir Mohan

Kalyan Desineni

Manikandan Sankaranarasimhan

Daniel S Jordan

Umesh R Patil

Leigh L Klotz, Jr

Matan Levi

Michael Feiertag

Brahm Kiran Singh

Robert M Tesh

Nicholas J Woods

Manish Gulati

A search system includes a query receiver, a live scrape system, and a content provider. The query receiver is configured to receive a first query related to a first application state of a first application. The first query is based on a user-requested search from a user device. The live scrape system is configured to operate a device including an operating system in which an instance of the first application executes. The live scrape system is configured to, responsive to the first query, and within the device, (i) navigate to the first application state in the instance of the first application and (ii) extract content from the instance of the first application. The content provider is configured to provide the extracted content to the user device for presentation to a user of the user device in real time.

Cloud-enabled architecture for on-demand native application crawling

A method includes receiving a search query from a user device and selecting entity type records from an entity type data store based on the query. Each of the entity type records includes an entity type name and entity type facets that each include terms descriptive of the entity type name. Selecting the entity type records includes identifying matches between the entity type facets and the query. The method includes selecting function records from a function data store based on the query and the entity type names from the selected entity type records. Each of the function records includes an entity type field with entity type names; an access URL template; instructions for completing the access URL template; and function facets with terms descriptive of an application state accessed using the completed access URL. The method includes returning search results including the completed access URLs to the user device.

Entity-type search system

A system for automated acquisition of content from an application includes a guide tracker module, a link extraction controller, and a scraper. The guide tracker module monitors interaction of an operator with an executing instance of the application and records a set of guides. Each guide includes a recorded sequence of user interface interactions concluding at a respective ultimate state of the application. The link extraction controller, for each guide of the set of guides, selectively identifies additional states of the application that correspond to the respective ultimate state and adds the additional states corresponding to the respective ultimate state and the respective ultimate state to a state list. The additional states and the respective ultimate state are all directly reachable from a common penultimate state of the application. Each entry in the state list designates a state and a path of user interface interactions to arrive at the state.

Operator-guided application crawling architecture

A system includes a search engine configured to search mobile applications based on a query received from a mobile device and to output search results in a first format. A first processor is configured to process the search results and to generate processed search results in the first format for rendering on the mobile device. A first converter is configured to convert the processed search results into a second format. A second processor is configured to process the processed search results in the second format and to generate a presentation of the processed search results in the second format. A second converter is configured to convert the presentation into the first format or a third format for rendering on the mobile device.

Transformation and presentation of on-demand native application crawling results

A system for automated acquisition of content from an application includes a link tracking module that controls an instance of the application executing within an emulator. For a selected state, the link tracking module controls the executing application instance to navigate to the selected state and identifies a first set of application states reachable by user interface interaction. A state storage module stores records based on the first set. A first state record includes content of a first state of the first set and a unique identifier that uniquely identifies the first state. The unique identifier indicates a path followed within the executing application instance from a default state to the first state, including corresponding user interface interaction. A scraper module, for each of the records in the state storage module, navigates to the state specified by the unique identifier using the indicated path and extracts text from the state.

Unguided application crawling architecture

A method and apparatus of accessing data through an independent intermediary mechanism (IIM) is described. The method includes displaying a frame including a user interface of the IIM, the frame framing a destination server display area (DSDA). The method further includes having one or more of the following functions provided by the IIM: a home page, a history list, bookmarks, a one-click account log-in function, a transaction record accessible to the user, a forms database permitting new forms to be added to the forms database, a user profile, and automatic form-fill function based on the forms database and the user profile.

Applications and services supported by a client-server independent intermediary mechanism

In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a hit rate and a change rate for a data object stored in a cache. The method also includes updating a time-to-live period for the data object stored in the cache based on the hit rate and the change rate for the data object.

Updating data objects for dynamic application caching

A method and apparatus for providing a dynamic caching system is described. The apparatus for dynamic caching comprises a UCI creator to create a unique content identifier for a request for a requested data set, proxy receiving logic to receive the requested data set from the origin server, and a compilation engine to create a compile object from the requested data set. The apparatus further comprises an assembly engine to, on a subsequent request for the data set, interpret the compile object to create the requested data set. The apparatus further comprises a response logic to serve the requested data set to a requester, without impacting the origin server.

Method and apparatus for a dynamic caching system

A method and apparatus for a client-server independent intermediary mechanism is provided. The method comprises displaying a frame including a user interface of the IIM, the frame framing a destination server display area (DSDA). The method further comprises retrieving data for display from a destination server, and instrumenting the data prior to display such that future data retrieved from the destination server is displayed in the DSDA, without writing over the frame.

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Sudhir Mohan