Method and system for modifying web content for display in a life portal

Abstract

A user-created life portal for viewing and accessing content on the Internet is described. The platform, referred to as a life portal, is configured by the user to display only content that is of interest to the user, thereby reflecting the personality and life of the user. The content displayed in a life portal is scraped from web sites and is not limited to sites licensed or maintained by the life portal service provider. Before content is displayed as a view in a portlet in a life page, the content is modified so that errors and unexpected behavior is minimized. This is done by parsing the content, for parsed views, and applying rules to the content thereby making the content suitable for display as a view. The rules are applied intelligently in that only rules appropriate for a domain are applied to pages from that domain. In this process, each web page retrieved is essentially customized by application of an appropriate and tested set of rules. If a domain is unknown to the service provider, a default set of rules are applied and new rules, if necessary, are added to a rule set to handle future processing of content from the previously unknown domain.

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