Patent ID: 8620892
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for indexing online references of an entity, the method comprising: identifying an entity, wherein the entity is an individual, corporation, brand, or product; identifying one or more channels of the Internet to be searched for references to the entity; identifying one or more types of signals to be evaluated within each of the one or more channels, the one or more types of signals including one or more of a frequency of a reference to the entity on a Web Page included in the one or more of the channels and a location of the reference to the entity on the Web Page; crawling the channels of the Internet, using a crawler, to look for and to locate references to the entity after the entity is identified for the crawler, wherein crawling the channels of the Internet comprises: constructing a reverse index of the references to the entity, wherein the reverse index is based on each channel in which a reference to the entity is located and the one or more signals evaluated for the located reference to the entity.