Patent ID: 6304872
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A search system for providing fulltext search of web pages of world wide web servers connected to an internet, the search system comprising:an internet server connected to the internet;a plurality of data groups stored in the server, each of the data groups comprising data from web pages of one world wide web server connected to the internet; anda management program stored in the server for managing operations of the server and providing users with the fulltext search service over the data groups, the management program comprising a data group creating module for creating the data group of each of the world wide web servers for fulltext search;wherein each of the data groups in the server comprises:a text file for recording the text data contained in each of the web pages of the corresponding world wide web server;a path file for recording path data of each of the web pages contained in the text file of the same data group; andan index file for providing fulltext search for text data contained in the text file of the same data group;wherein according to at least one user specified search parameter, the management program uses the index file of each data group to search the text file of the same data group to find web pages of the corresponding world wide web server which fit the specified search parameter, uses the text file of the same data group to retrieve text data of each web page which fits the search parameter, uses the path file of the same data group to find the path data of each of the web pages of the corresponding world wide web server which fit the specified search parameter, and then outputs the result in a predetermined format, and when creating one data group for a world wide web server, the data group creating module first connects to the world wide web server through the internet, retrieves text and path data stored in the web pages of the world wide web server, creates one text file and one path file using the retrieved data, and then creates one index file using the text file for fulltext search of the text data contained in the text file, and after retrieving the text data and path data contained in each of the web pages, the management program abandons all the other data to save memory space.