Method And An Apparatus For Information Collection
AssigneeH3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorChangzhong Ge
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for collecting information. The technical solution of the invention enables the search engine database to collect dynamic web page access information by sending web page access information to it. As the collected information shows statistics about actual web page access information usage, it is an important reference for the search engine to sequence web pages.
Claims22
1-20. (canceled)
A method of collecting information, comprising:
- at an obtaining unit of an information collecting apparatus communicatively coupled with a web server, listening to an HTML transaction between a web client and the web server;
- by listening to the HTML transaction, obtaining web page access information from the HTML transaction, the web page access information including one or more HTML files, each corresponding to one or more web pages of the HTML transaction;
- and
- at the obtaining unit, sending the obtained web page access information to a search engine database that is communicatively coupled with the information collecting apparatus.
An information collection apparatus configured to be communicatively coupled with a web server, the information collection apparatus comprising an obtaining unit and a sending unit,
- wherein, the obtaining unit is configured to:
- listen to an HTML transaction between the web server and a web client;
- obtain web page access information from the HTML transaction, the web page access information including one or more HTML files, each corresponding to one or more web pages of the HTML transaction;
- and
- send the web page access information to the sending unit,
- and wherein the sending unit is configured to send the obtained web page access information to a search engine database that is communicatively coupled with the information collecting apparatus.
A method for collecting information for search engine comprising:
- at an information collecting apparatus communicatively coupled with a first web server, receiving one or more first messages from the first web server, the one or more first messages corresponding to one or more HTML transactions between the first web server and an internet client, and each of the one or more first messages including codes that represent one or more first HTML files corresponding to one or more web pages sent from the first web server to the internet client, wherein each of the one or more first HTML files is coded with unique codes;
- at the information collecting apparatus, retrieving the one or more first HTML files from the one or more first messages according to a first coding dictionary associated with the first web server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.