System and method for facilitating internet search by providing web document layout image
AssigneeCcr, LLC
InventorSeok Ho Youn
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Abstract
A search system on the Internet provides a search result in response to search criteria provided by a user. The search system comprises a robot agent for extracting web document information and layout images of web documents on the Internet; a first database for storing the web document information extracted by the robot agent; a second database for storing the layout images extracted by the robot agent; and a search unit for retrieving web document information and layout images, a, from the first database and the second database, respectively, in response to the search criteria.
Claims14
A search system on the Internet for providing a search result in response to search criteria received from a user, comprising:
- a robot agent for extracting web document information and layout images of web documents from web sites via the Internet;
- a first database for storing the web document information extracted by the robot agent;
- a second database for storing the layout images created from the web documents extracted by the robot agent;
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- a search means for retrieving web document information and layout images from the first database and the second database, respectively, in response to a search request.
A method for providing a search result including web document information and layout images of web documents from web sites via the Internet, comprising the steps of:
- (a) extracting web document information and generating layout images from web documents and storing the web document information and layout images in a first database and a second database, respectively;
- (b) receiving search criteria from a user;
- (c) retrieving web document information and layout images of web documents that match said search criteria from the first database and the second database, respectively;
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- (d) providing the web document information and the layout images in a viewing format preselected by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.