Patent ID: 7099861
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A search system on the Internet for providing a search result in response to search criteria received from a user, comprising: a robot agent for extracting web document information and layout images of web documents from web sites via the Internet, wherein the robot agent includes: a text collecting means for visiting web sites, downloading web documents from the visited web sites and extracting web document information from the web documents; a text queue for storing URLs of web sites to be visited by the text collecting means; an image collecting means for visiting web sites, downloading web documents from the visited sites and generating web images from the web documents to register the web images in a second database; an image queue for storing the URLs of web sites to be visited by the text collecting means and the image collecting means; and a queue managing means for controlling the text queue to provide a URL having a highest visiting priority in the text queue to the text collecting means when the text collecting means requests a URL from the queue managing means and registering the web document information from the text collecting means m a first database; the first database for storing the web document information extracted by the robot agent; the second database for storing the layout images created from the web documents extracted by the robot agent; and a search means for retrieving web document information and layout images from the first database and the second database, respectively, in response to a search request.