International Business Machines Corporation

Ibm Canada Limited - Ibm Canada Limitee

Suryakant Choudhary

Iosif Viorel Onut

Paul Ionescu

Guy-Vincent Jourdan

Gregor Von Bochmann

Khalil A Ayoub

Seyed M Mir Taheri

Mustafa Emre Dincturk

Embodiments are directed to computing, by an apparatus comprising a processing device, an identifier (ID) for an element in a page using an algorithm responsive to encountering the element a first time, causing, by the apparatus, the ID to be stored in a storage device, encountering, by the apparatus, the element a second time, determining, by the apparatus, that the element is encountered the second time, and responsive to determining that the element is encountered the second time, representing, by the apparatus, the element by the ID at the time of the second encounter by retrieving the ID from the storage device.

Representation of an element in a page via an identifier

Embodiments relating to a computer-implemented process, an apparatus and a computer program product is provided for crawling rich Internet applications. In one aspect the method includes executing an event in a set of events discovered in a state exploration phase according to a predetermined priority of events in each set of events in the sets of events discovered, wherein the event from a higher priority is exhausted before an event from a lower priority is executed and determining any transitions. Responsive to a determination that there are at least one transition any remaining set of events is executed in a transition exploration phase. In addition the method determines the existence of any new states as a result of executing an event in the set of events and returns to the state exploration phase, responsive to a determination that a new state exists.

Crawling rich Internet applications

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Suryakant Choudhary