Patent ID: 6895551

Claim:
A network quality control system that performs an automatic validation of hypertext documents, comprising: a crawling module for visiting and downloading the hypertext documents to a validation module; the validation module identifying a hypertext standard used by the hypertext documents; the validation module further automatically testing the validity of the hypertext documents for compliance with the identified standard, by parsing the hypertext documents and by identifying problems it encounters, wherein if a hypertext document fails the parse, the hypertext document is classified as non-conformant, otherwise, the hypertext document is classified as conformant; a repair module for automatically correcting non-conformant hypertext documents by passing them through an editor corresponding to the hypertext standard identified by the validation module, by revising non-conformant elements in the hypertext documents; an author search module for automatically determining a most probable reply link for the hypertext documents using a probabilistic prediction approach; and a notification module for sending a notice to the most probable reply link determined by the author search module.