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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2020
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Yung-hsiang Lu, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Ryan Merrill Dailey, McLean, VA (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
A method for indexing network camera data across heterogeneous web page structures is disclosed, which includes receiving a list of predetermined file formats, generating a list of IP network camera IP addresses, sending requests to each of the IP addresses, including transmitting a HTTP request to each IP address in the list, based on a response or lack thereof determine if an IP address is i) a network camera thereby adding the IP address to a list of network cameras, ii) a website thereby adding the IP address to a list of websites to be further investigated, or iii) an address void of network camera information thereby skipping the IP address, and crawling the IP addresses that have been determined to be websites using a web crawler identifying IP addresses of network cameras and resource path associated therewith and adding the same to the list of network cameras.