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Systems and methods for monitoring webpages

US8185621B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 16, 2008
Grant dateMay 22, 2012
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 3, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/957
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Webpages at a universal resource locator (URL) address are compared at two different times. A request is received from a web browser for a first webpage at the URL. The first webpage is requested and received from the URL at a first time. A selectable webpage is created by editing the first webpage to make it selectable and the selectable web page is sent to the web browser. A selection is received from the web browser that includes a portion of the selectable web page and a frequency. An application is created that retrieves a webpage from the universal resource locator address of the website periodically at the frequency. A second webpage is received from the application that was retrieved from the universal resource locator address at a second time by the application. A portion of the second webpage is compared to the portion of the selectable webpage.

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