Patent ID: 7203673
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for collecting documents linked to each other from a network by crawling the network, comprising: collecting a number of documents into a collected document group until the number of documents is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, the documents being collected from inside a community through the network based on a reference of each document in the collected document group, the reference defining a relationship between referring documents and referenced documents inside or outside the community which are linked to the referring documents; collecting a newly collected document group from inside and outside the community based on the reference of the collected document group from inside the community; and indicating a level of significance of a collected document belonging to the newly collected document group according to references to the collected document and information about a position of the collected document in the network, with the significance of the collected document increasing with an increased number of references to the collected document from the referring documents thereof at network locations having low similarity to the position of the collected document in the network.