Method for interactively creating an information database including preferred information elements, such as preferred authority, world
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
- Publication Date
- 2001-11-08
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
[0001] 1. Field of Use
[0002] This invention relates generally to a method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information; as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet; and more particularly, to method preferably implemented in computer software for interactively creating an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages, the method including steps for enabling a user to interactively creating a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database; the method featuring steps for enabling a user to interactively define a frame-based, hierarchical information structure for cataloging information, identify a preliminary population of information elements for a par...