Patent ID: 7672958
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying one or more records from a data set based on a pre-defined context, the data set being a web page captured from the Internet, the web page being represented as a hierarchical tree structure representing one or more nodes, wherein the pre-defined context defines an objective based on which the one or more records are identified, the pre-defined context being associated with its corresponding domain model, the method comprising the steps of: a. automatically selecting the pre-defined context for the web page; b. identifying one or more nodes of interest from the one or more nodes of the hierarchical tree structure, the one or more nodes of interest being identified based on the pre-defined context; c. extracting one or more sub-trees based on the identified one or more nodes of interest, wherein each of the one or more extracted sub-trees being a hierarchical path showing the logical relationship of the one or more nodes of interest with its ancestor nodes in the hierarchical tree structure; d. selecting one or more records corresponding to each of the one or more extracted sub-trees based on the pre-defined context, wherein each record comprises at least one node of interest and the corresponding parent node, the parent node of the at least one node of interest being referred to as a record-child, wherein selecting the one or more records comprises: e. storing each of the selected one or more records in a database, wherein a search enqine is built on the database to facilitate a user to search the database over the Internet based on a user query.