Patent ID: 8224841

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for dynamically updating a web index with updated data to generate an updated web index, the method comprising: receiving one or more web page addresses and associated data for each of the one or more web page addresses to be utilized to update the web index, wherein the associated data comprises one or more meta words; accessing a data store to determine a document identification (“document ID”) that corresponds to each of the one or more web page addresses received, wherein the data store includes stored web page addresses that are paired with stored document IDs, wherein a pairing between a stored web page address and a stored document ID indicates that the document ID corresponds to the stored web page address; determining the document ID that corresponds to each of the one or more web page addresses received based on a pairing between the web page address and the document ID as stored in the data store; associating the document IDs with the one or more web page addresses and associated data received; replacing the one or more web page addresses with the corresponding document IDs, wherein the associated data received is associated with the corresponding document IDs, rather than with the one or more web page addresses, in an inverted index; identifying one or more document IDs and the other associated data that are associated with each of the one or more meta words received; associating the one or more document IDs and the other associated data with each of the one or more meta words received to generate the inverted index comprising information used to update the web index, wherein the inverted index is indexed by the one or more meta words; updating the corresponding one or more meta words in the web index with the information in the inverted index to generate an updated web index, wherein within the updated web index the one or more meta words are associated with corresponding document IDs rather than associated with the web page addresses; and storing the updated web index.