Patent Document ID: 9158855
Application ID: 11454301

Base Claim:
1. A method of extracting individual posts from a weblog, comprising: accessing a home page of the weblog; identifying at least one feed associated with the weblog; determining whether the at least one feed contains sufficient content for feed-guided segmentation; if the at least one feed contains sufficient content for feed-guided segmentation, determining whether the at least one feed contains full content or partial content of the weblog; if the at least one feed contains full content of the weblog, mapping data found in the at least one feed into a representation for weblog posts; and if the at least one feed contains partial content of the weblog, screen scraping the weblog into a representation for weblog posts using the data.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the at least one feed associated with the weblog comprises receiving a feed URL for the weblog from a ping relayed by a ping server from which a weblog update is collected.