Crawling browser-accessible applications
US8250059B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 14, 2009 |
| Grant date | Aug 21, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 17, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/02
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Crawling a browser-accessible application by causing a target application and a bridge application to run concurrently in a browser-controllable player, and iteratively receiving from the bridge application current state information of the target application, storing the state information on a data storage device if the state information is not found on the data storage device, where the state information is stored as a descendant state of an initial state of the target application, and interacting with the target application in accordance with a predefined simulation algorithm, thereby effecting a new state of the target application, until a predefined termination condition is reached.
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