Patent Document ID: 20150026152
Application ID: 13942812
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for training a web crawler, wherein the web crawler maintains one or more categories each comprising a set of words, the method comprising: in response to receiving a query from a user: selecting, by a processor, at least one hyperlink based on the set of words; determining, by the processor, a hyperlink score for the at least one hyperlink based on a predetermined category score associated with each of one or more categories and a membership value of the at least one hyperlink for each of the one or more categories; updating, by the processor, the predetermined category score associated with each of the one or more categories based at least in part on the hyperlink score; comparing, by the processor, the updated predetermined category score with the hyperlink score to select a category from the one or more categories; and updating, by the processor, the set of words associated with the category based on content of a web page pointed by the at least one hyperlink.