Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1998-08-13
2001-10-16
Black, Thomas (Department: 2171)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06304872
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a search system, and more particularly, to a search system for providing fulltext search over web pages of world wide web servers.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The internet has become extremely popular with more and more web servers connecting to it. This enables users to connect with the internet to search a wealth of information. Unfortunately, the vast number of servers currently connected with the internet as well as the number of web pages stored in each server has become unmanageably large thus confusing the user. To overcome this problem, many web page search systems have been produced. Users may key in desired information into the search systems to search servers and web pages.
To create a database for web pages stored in world wide web servers, the search systems analyze and process data contained in collected web pages from the web servers for use in the search. A single web page may contain many types of files including graphs, text, sound, motion files, etc. Additionally, each web server may contain hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands, of web pages. Creating a database for even a single web server would be an overwhelming task and the problem is compounded when one considers the fact that a search system must handle hundreds of web servers simultaneously. Clearly, this enormous amount of needed computer memory and increased processing time is unacceptable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore a primary objective of the present invention to provide a search system that creates its database by storing the text, path and hyperlink data of a web page only and excluding all extraneous data to solve the above problems.
In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a search system which comprises an internet server connected to the internet, a plurality of data groups stored in the server with each of the data groups comprising data from web pages of one world wide web server connected to the internet, and a management program stored in the server for managing operations of the server and providing users with the fulltext search service over the data groups. Each of the data groups in the server comprises a path file for recording path data of each of the web pages in the world wide web server corresponding to the data group and an index file for providing fulltext search for text data contained in the web pages of the world wide web server corresponding to the data group. The management program uses the index file of each data group to find web pages of the corresponding world wide web server which fit the specified search parameter, uses the path file of each data group to find the path data of each of the web pages of the corresponding world wide web server which fit the specified search parameter, and then outputs the result in a predetermined format.
This and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after having read the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment which is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
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Black Thomas
Hsu Winston
Tornado Technology Co. Ltd.
Wang Mary
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