Web Platform Source-Code Extraction for Hidden Tool Providers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face excessive time consumption and inefficiency in searching for digital product tool information across web platforms due to varying navigation structures and hidden provider information, leading to wasted time and resources.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes a web platform navigator to identify relevant web pages by matching navigation structures with known hosting configurations, extracts source code, and uses a feature identifier to find digital product tool providers, updating a graphical user interface with real-time information display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional systems perform page-by-page search to locate digital product tool information, then comprehensive information can be retrieved, but search time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating candidate web page addresses using URL template matching before actual information retrieval. The web platform navigator constructs candidate URLs by matching known hosting configuration templates with the current web platform structure, allowing the system to directly navigate to relevant pages rather than searching page-by-page.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a web platform navigator as an intermediary component between the search system and web pages. This navigator acts as a mediator that understands web platform navigation structures and can generate appropriate candidate web page addresses, bridging the gap between generic search queries and platform-specific information locations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system adapts to new web navigation formats for unfamiliar web platforms, then information can be retrieved from diverse platforms, but additional time is spent adjusting to new formats
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements universality by creating a web platform navigator that can handle multiple web platform types through a unified approach. Instead of requiring separate adaptation logic for each platform, the navigator uses generic URL template matching that works across different hosting configurations, allowing the same system to efficiently retrieve information from diverse web platforms without platform-specific customization.
3Reliability
If provider information is embedded in web page source code rather than displayed visibly, then information can be protected from casual viewing, but extraction requires additional processing steps
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by having the web platform navigator automatically perform source code extraction and provider information identification without requiring external intervention. The navigator autonomously retrieves web page source code, parses it to identify provider information, and integrates this data into the search results, making the extraction process transparent to the end user.
4Loss of information
If multiple digital product tools are searched across different web platforms, then comprehensive tool information is gathered, but total processing time grows significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary URL generation and candidate web page identification before actual information retrieval for each digital product tool. By pre-constructing candidate web page addresses using the web platform navigator and URL template matching, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming page-by-page searching, significantly improving processing efficiency when gathering information across multiple tools and platforms.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for processing web platform source code to determine presence of one or more embedded digital product tools. In some aspects, the system is configured to receive navigation information associated with a web platform, extract source code of a first page, determine a hosting configuration template matching the web platform, determine navigation information for a plurality of search result pages of the web platform, extract source code of a search result page from the plurality of search result pages, determine that at least one search string, of a plurality of search strings associated with the target digital product tool, is included in the source code of the search result page, identify a first provider of the target digital product tool based on the at least one search string, and generate for display an indication of the target digital product tool and the identified first provider.