Patent ID: 8086699
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating a plurality of bi-directionally interconnected network of websites and directory-style website configuration, organized in a plurality of hierarchical configurations, comprising: creating a directory-based portal website having a domain name indicative of a service, such that each website in the interconnected network of websites can be located more effectively by internet searches than it would be in its non-networked state; establishing an interconnected network of directory-based websites, wherein each website is represented by a unique URL; creating a plurality of local directory-based websites having a domain name indicative of a service and a locality; providing a plurality of links, which, when selected, sends a user from any one of the directory-based websites to another of the plurality of local directory-based websites in the interconnected network; receiving content related to any of the directory-based websites in the interconnected network from providers of the service in the locality, the content including at least one link; scanning the content on any of the directory-based websites in the interconnected network to retrieve at least one link provided therein; adding the at least one link to a link library for all directory-based websites in the interconnected network; determining that the at least one link is appropriate for distribution to any directory-based website in the interconnected network; distributing the at least one link to any other directory-based website in the interconnected network; and creating a network that allows any directory-based website in the interconnected network to function as its own portal or a portal to other directory-based website in the interconnected network.