Patent ID: 6910071

Claim:
A method of monitoring by a monitoring system a data system among a plurality of data systems connected to a user system among a plurality of user systems all of which systems are interconnected through a network, the method comprising the steps of, receiving search criteria from the user system, retrieving content data from the data system, repeating the retrieving step at regular intervals, determining matches for each of the retrieving steps when the content data matches the search criteria at each of the regular intervals, and reporting the matches to the user system wherein, the content data is web content data, the data systems are web servers storing the web content data, the network is the internet, the web server having a web site location identified by a uniform resource locator (URL) that indicates the web content data, the user system comprises a web browser for communication with the monitoring system over the internet, and the monitoring system is a web monitoring server for receiving the search criteria from the user browser and for accessing the web content data of the web server.