Patent ID: 6332141
Filing Date: 2001-12-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable storage medium having stored therein indicia of a plurality of machine-executable control program steps, the control program comprising the steps of:(a) inputting a list of monitored sites and identified terms, wherein data related to such terms may appear in the monitored sites;(b) retrieving data from one of the monitored sites;(c) examining the data to return any portion of the data related to the identified terms;(d) using a tracking index to detect a real-time change in the data on the monitored site retrieved in step (b);(e) retrieving the real-time change in the data on the monitored site based on the tracking index;(f) generating an information alert to inform an intended recipient of the real-time change in data on the monitored site retrieved in step (b); and(g) repeating steps (b) through (f) for each monitored site listed in step (a).