Web search engine with graphic snapshots

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-05-31
MINERAL LASSEN
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[0031]According to an inventive aspect, the graphic image file that is produced is not necessarily identical to the appearance of the page when ultimately loaded by the user after a search. In addition to the fact that the web page may have changed since it was rendered into the graphic file, the re

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However, the display and processing of the files is not necessarily the same from one user's browser to another.
This web crawling method is now impractical for on-demand searching.
The usual success rate in finding a pertinent page or website in one try or only a few tries is actually rather low.
The success rate varies with the subject matter, but in a typical search the user's search criteria m

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[0036]According to the invention as generally shown in FIGS. 1-3, the reporting of search results by a search engine 20, is improved and facilitated by offering each searcher or user 30 a visual representation 35 of the web pages found to meet the user's search criteria submitted to the search engine. The invention is particularly applicable to an Internet search engine but can also be applied to other networks 50 where the search engine 20 is available for managing user search and selection of web pages or similar files, stored at distributed systems 52 coupled to the network. The web pages which may be considered data files, are found at addresses to which the search engine can link to load the data files, for example being accessible using URL addressing of the pages as hypertext markup language (html), file transfer protocol (ftp), telnet or other such file types. The data files may have embedded links to other data file or to graphics or other media files. The search engine 20 ...

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A search engine manages the indexing of web page contents and accepts user selection criteria to find and report hits that meet the search criteria. The inventive search engine has an associated crawler function wherein display images of the web pages are rendered and stored as snapshots, preferably when the pages are indexed. The search engine reports search results by composing an html page with links to the corresponding page hits and containing snapshot reduced size graphic images showing the web pages as they appeared when fetched and stored as snapshots.

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[0001]Notice: More than one reissue application has been filed for the reissue of U.S. Pat. No. 6,643,641. The reissue applications are application Ser. No. 11 / 266,750 (present application) and application Ser. No. 11 / 513,423 (continuation of application number 11 / 266,750) which are reissues of U.S. Pat. No. 6,643,641.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The invention concerns methods and apparatus for representing data file contents for searching the data files and reporting selected data file addresses, especially hypertext markup language files accessed using an Internet search engine (i.e., Web pages). One process develops a database representing the text content of data files on a network. Another process renders graphic representations of the files according to a default configuration and stores a compressed graphic file for each. A further process selects file hits according to user criteria and reports their addresses with associated presentation o...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30
CPCG06F16/951Y10S707/915Y10S707/99943Y10S707/99934Y10S707/959Y10S707/99945G06F16/24542G06F16/9535G06F16/9538G06F16/9532
Inventor SNYDER, RUSSELL
Owner MINERAL LASSEN
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