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 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the at least one feed associated with the weblog further comprises: extracting a set of hyperlinks from a body of the weblog; and filtering the set of extracted hyperlinks using a classifier to identify hyperlinks that belong to the at least one feed for the weblog.