Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for building sales tools by mining data from websites
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Application No.: US13690444Application Date: 2012-11-30
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Publication No.: US08560518B2Publication Date: 2013-10-15
- Inventor: Srinivas Bangalore , Junlan Feng , Mazin Gilbert , Jay Gordon Wilpon
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Wolff & Samson, PC
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130159828A1 Method and Apparatus for Building Sales Tools by Mining Data from Websites Public/Granted day:2013-06-20
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