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 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether the at least one feed contains full content or partial content of the weblog uses heuristics to determine whether the at least one feed contains full content based on features of content and description text in the at least one feed.