Patent ID: 8060518
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for extracting and structuring items of data from content available via the Internet, the method comprising: receiving at a server information from a user's computer specifying at least (a) a Web page available via the Internet, (b) types of data to be extracted from the Web page, and (c) fields for structuring extracted items of data; retrieving the Web page from the Internet yielding retrieved content; processing the retrieved content including: mapping the extracted data to the fields so as to transform the extracted data into a structured format yielding structured data; and returning aspects of the structured data to the user's computer, wherein the feature tags each comprise a series of alphanumeric characters that represent (i) a container object type, (ii) a version of the container object, and (iii) an occurrence of the container object within the retrieved content.