Method and Apparatus for Building Sales Tools by Mining Data from Websites
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
InventorsSrinivas Bangalore, Junlan Feng, Mazin Gilbert, Jay Gordon Wilpon
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AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
InventorsSrinivas Bangalore, Junlan Feng, Mazin Gilbert, Jay Gordon Wilpon
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A website mining tool is disclosed that extracts information from, for example, a company's website and presents the extracted information in a graphical user interface (GUI). In one embodiment, web pages from a website are stored in, for example, computer memory and a structure of the web pages is identified. A plurality of blocks of information is then extracted as a function of this structure and a category is assigned to each block of information. The elements in the blocks of information are then displayed, for example to a salesperson, as a function of these categories. In another embodiment, Document Object Modeling parsing is used to identify the structure of the web pages. In yet another embodiment, a support vector machine is used to categorize each block of information.
A method for extracting elements of information from a website comprising a plurality of Web pages, said method comprising:
A apparatus for extracting elements of information from a website comprising a plurality of Web pages, said apparatus comprising:
A computer readable medium storing computer program instructions which, when executed on a processor, define the steps of:
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