US 9,672,283 B2Granted

Structured and social data aggregator

AssigneeData Record Science

InventorsDerek Edwin Pappas, Milos Milosevic

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Abstract

Information is obtained from the Internet is combined with processed and rated information from social networking services by a structured and social data aggregator providing highly relevant search results. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a product information crawler, which crawls the Internet in search of web pages relevant to a requested subject or product. The product information crawler conveys captured web pages to a structured data extractor, which extracts product information. A social networking crawler crawls social networking services in search of social network information to the requested subject or product. The processed product information and processed social network information is conveyed to an information aggregator, which merges the information and stores it in a data store that can be queried by a user. A user would then be able conduct a single search about a subject or product, and retrieve highly relevant structured product information enhanced by social networking information.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for aggregating structured and social data comprising:

a) requesting, and in response to the request, receiving, information from one or more social networking servers by a social networking crawler;
b) extracting one or more records from the received information from one or more product information servers;
c) splitting social information records into tokens;
d) looking up a plurality of said tokens in a social rating dictionary;
e) converting a plurality of social information token synonyms into base words;
f) assigning semantic types to a plurality of said tokens;
g) semantically analyzing a plurality of said social information records;
h) classifying a plurality of said social information records using said plurality of tokens and token types by assigning one or more customer service, product or brand attribute and product categories to a plurality of said social information records;
i) creating a plurality of sets of said classified social information records by said assigned social categories;
j) saving said classified social information records in a data store;
k) accessing a seed queue of URL's for web pages that contain information related to a product on one or more product information servers by a product information crawler;
l) said product information crawler requesting, and in response to the request, receiving information related to the product from said web pages on one or more product information servers;
m) extracting one or more product information records from the received information related to the product from the one or more product information servers;
n) classifying plurality of product information records by tokenizing product information records into product information tokens, looking up plurality of product information tokens in a product category dictionary and converting token synonyms into base words;
o) saving said classified product information records in a data store;
p) merging said classified social information records and said classified product information records;
q) storing said merged classified social information and social product information records in a data store.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing computer implementable instructions in non-volatile memory, said instructions for causing a structured and social data aggregator to perform a method of aggregating structured and social data, said method comprising:

a) requesting, and in response to the request, receiving, information front one or more social networking servers by a social networking crawler;
b) extracting one or more records from fee received information from one or more product information servers;
c) splitting social information records into tokens;
d) looking up a plurality of said tokens in a social rating dictionary;
e) converting a plurality of social information token synonyms into base words;
f) assigning semantic types to the plurality of said tokens;
g) semantically analyzing a plurality of said social information records;
h) classifying a plurality of said social information records using said plurality of tokens and a token types by assigning one or more customer service, product or brand attribute and product categories to a plurality of said social information records;
i) creating a plurality of sets of said classified social information records by said assigned social categories;
j) saving said classified social information records in a data store;
k) accessing a seed queue of URL's for web pages that contain information related to a product on one or more product information servers by a product information crawler;
l) said product information crawler requesting, and in response to the request, receiving information related to the product from said web pages on one or more product information servers;
m) extracting one or more product information records from the received information related to the product from the one or more product information servers;
n) classifying plurality of product information records by tokenizing product information records into product information tokens, looking up plurality of product information tokens in a product category dictionary and converting token synonyms into base words;
o) saving said classified product information records in a data store;
p) merging said classified social information records and said classified product information records;
q) storing said merged classified social information and social product information records in a data store.

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A system for aggregating structured and social data comprising:

a) processor and memory configured to execute software instructions;
b) a product information crawler server configured to request, and in response to the request, receive, information front one or more social networking servers by a social networking crawler;
c) a structured data extractor configured to extract one or more records from fee received information from one or more product information servers;
d) social information tokenizer configured to split social information records into tokens;
e) social information tokenizer configured look UP a plurality of said tokens in a social rating dictionary;
f) a product classifier configured to convert a plurality of social information token synonyms into base words;
g) a product classifier configured to assign semantic types to the plurality of said tokens;
h) a social rating analyzer configured to semantically analyze a plurality of said social information records;
i) social information classifier configured to classify a plurality of said social information records using said plurality of tokens and a token types by assigning one or more customer service, product or brand attribute and product categories to a plurality of said social information records;
j) a product classifier configured to create a plurality of sets of said classified social information records by said assigned social categories;
k) a data store configured to save said classified social information records;
l) a social networking crawler configured to access a seed queue of URL's for web pages that contain information related to a product on one or more product information servers by a product information crawler;
m) a social networking crawler configured to crawl for each product, store, or brand request and in response to the request, receive information related to the product, store or brand from one or more social networking servers;
n) a social rating analyzer configured to extract one or more product information records from the received information related to the product from the one or more product information servers;
o) social information classifier configured to classify plurality of product information records by tokenizing product information records into product information tokens, look up plurality of product information tokens in a product category dictionary and convert token synonyms into base words;
p) a data store configured to save said classified product information records;
q) an information aggregator configured to merge said classified social information records and said classified product information records;
r) a data store configured to store said merged classified social information and social product information records.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/911,056Filed 5 Jun 2013 · us provisional application
Priority: 6 Jun 2012
Published: US 2013/0332460 A112 Dec 2013
Granted: 6 Jun 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 16/9536
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
G06F 16/35
Of unstructured textual data: clustering; Classification
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F 16/284
Databases characterised by their database models, e.g. relational or object models: relational databases