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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
May. 08, 2001
Jacob William Green, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
John Lane Schultz, Whiteford, MD (US);
Yair Amir, Bethesda, MD (US);
Michael Truman Goodrich, Irvine, CA (US);
Jacob William Green, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
John Lane Schultz, Whiteford, MD (US);
Yair Amir, Bethesda, MD (US);
Michael Truman Goodrich, Irvine, CA (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A system for maximal gathering of fresh information added to a network such as the as the Internet and for processing the gathered fresh information. A link server () sends a batch of links to check () to a crawler (B). Crawler (B) them executes its crawling assignment by filtering the encountered content and extracting only that which is new or changed (). Crawler (B) then returns this content () to at least one data center and any interested web mining application (). By using the crawlers (A-E) to filter the data and only return or notify regarding, the fresh content, less bandwidth is needed to get the information to the web mining application ().