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Web site quality assurance system and method

US6519616B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 31, 1999
Grant dateFeb 11, 2003
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Expiry dateDec 31, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99931
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for use in assuring the quality of a web site are disclosed. The system and method are particularly directed to the quality assurance of a telephone directory web site that, in response to queries submitted by visitors to the web site, returns telephone listings including links to web pages relating to listed businesses or individuals. The system and method of the present invention allow a user thereof to easily access and view data records generated during periodic tests of the web site. Each record corresponds with a listing in the directory and includes at least one data field having data indicative of the outcome of a search verification test (e.g. a string code such as “OK”) and at least one data field having data indicative of the outcome of a link verification test (e.g. an HTTP result code such as “404”). A first interface, displayed by a client, provides for submission of search criteria (e.g. a particular HTTP result code) to a server in communication with the client. A list of records found by the server meeting the submitted search criteria is displayed in a second interface by the client. In displaying the list of records, at…

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