Patent Document ID: 7555448
Application ID: 09967233

Base Claim:
1. A method for real-time online search processing over inter-connected computer networks, the method comprises the steps of: a. accessing an offline database having vendor descriptions for a plurality of vendor sites, including vendor sites in different native languages, over inter-connected computer networks, the vendor descriptions having information about each of the plurality of vendor sites that include: i. a URL for each of the plurality of vendor sites; ii. a search form URL for each of the plurality of vendors; iii. description of domains found in each of the plurality of vendor sites; iv. generalized rules about how product information is organized on each of the plurality of vendor sites; v. samples of price and product information retrieved from the plurality of vendors; b. receiving from an online user, in one of the different native languages, a price comparison request for a desired product; c. identifying from the vendor descriptions, vendor sites which may have price information relevant to the price comparison request; d. constructing search requests for the desired product using the vendor descriptions for each of the identified vendor sites, including the corresponding search form URL; e. submitting directly to the identified vendor sites the constructed search requests; f. extracting price and product information from search results received in response to the submitted search requests, wherein the extracted price and product information are in the one of the different native languages; and g. displaying the extracted price and product information to the user.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying step includes the step of displaying price and product information for the desired product in a selectable arrangement.