US 6,983,282 B2
Computer method and apparatus for collecting people and organization information from Web sites
Jonathan Stern, Newton, Mass. (US); Kosmas Karadimitriou, Shrewsbury, Mass. (US); Jeremy W. Rothman-Shore, Cambridge, Mass. (US); and Michel Decary, Montreal (Canada)
Assigned to Zoom Information, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/821,908.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/221750, filed on Jul. 31, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2002/0052928 A1, May 02, 2002
Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 707—102 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for collecting people and organization information from Web sites in a global computer network comprising the steps of:
accessing a Web site of potential interest, the Web site having a plurality of Web pages;
determining a subset of the plurality of Web pages to process; and
for each Web page in the subset, (i) determining types of contents found on the Web page, and (ii) based on the determined content types, enabling extraction of people and organization information from the Web page.