System and method for a tagging service

US8260765B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Maria Arbusto · Brooklyn, US
• Robi Brunner · Cambridge, US
• Thomas J. Burris · Newton, US
• Melania Degeratu · South Plainfield, US
• James R. Doran · New Milford, US
• Sarah N. Goldman · Brooklyn, US
• Brian D. Goodman · New Haven, US
• Brian P. Olore · Rochester, US
• Aroopratan D. Pandya · Hopewell Junction, US
• Chen Shu · Oakville, US
• Matthew Starr · Vestal, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 2008
• Grant date: Sep 4, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 15, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a service for displaying custom information. The service includes establishing a data connection to at least one data source, storing specific information via the data connection in the data source, and providing a data crawler to crawl said at least one data source using the stored information. The results are pushed from the data crawler to an end user for displaying a combination of the stored information and the at least one data source.