Patent Document ID: 7496581
Application ID: 10621474

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: reading an HTML document of a web page as an analyzing object; conducting a temporary block analysis based on a description of HTML tags of the HTML document; using the HTML tags to temporarily divide the HTML document into blocks; identifying unnecessary information elements in the HTML document, wherein the unnecessary information elements include: plural information elements that include an OBJECT_IMAGE having a same Uniform Resource Locator (URL), wherein the OBJECT_IMAGE describes a type of media used to display the HTML document, a block of text in the HTML document that is shorter than a maximum predetermined length, and wherein the block of text appears in the HTML document more than a predetermined frequency, multiple anchors having a same title, image tags that only perform a role of punctuation for text in the HTML document, and multiple text blocks having a same description; defining any block in the HTML document that is deemed to be meaningless as an OBJECT_DELIMITER, wherein a block is deemed to be meaningless if that block contains only said unnecessary information elements and at least one anchor; and crawling only anchors found in blocks that have not been defined as OBJECT_DELIMITERs.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum predetermined length is 12 bytes.