Patent ID: 7664802
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of identifying a characteristic of a set of data accessible via a link specifying a network location, the method comprising: receiving, in a first server maintained by a first party, a request from a device for a characteristic to be transmitted to the device in a network, the request comprising data indicative of said link; identifying by the first server a link listing generating a match with the requested link based on the data indicative of said link in the received request, said link listing being identifiable from a list comprising a plurality of link listings and being stored in a database of a second server maintained by a second party; querying, by the first server, data indicative of a set of data accessible from the identified link listing from the database maintained by the second party; identifying at least one characteristic from the queried data indicative of the set of data on the basis of at least one predefined characteristic request criteria; and transmitting data indicative of the at least one identified characteristic from the first server to the device, wherein said at least one predefined characteristic request criteria comprises data indicative of rating data indicative of a rating applied to the set of data.