Automated content filter and URL translation for dynamically generated web documents

摘要

Embodiments provide a method, process and apparatus for filtering a request from a client and building the response to that request using mapping tables. These mapping tables are utilized to present content-related information about hypertext documents that can be dynamically generated from a database, on one or more servers. The dynamically generated hypertext documents may be web pages for the World Wide Web portion of the Internet. The mapping table is used to automatically generate a mapping page to best match its intended viewer's request. A mapping page designed to be viewed by a computer system will be presented in a format optimized for use by a web crawler program to build an index of web pages that may be generated at the server site. A mapping page designed to be viewed by a person will be presented in a human readable format, with optimizations made based on how that user arrived at the page. A site operator will enter the basic information required to generate the first mapping table entries, including information required to build a data access algorithm. Data used in these mapping tables, including the URL (uniform resource locator), keyword data and content, is fetched by an automated web browser (spider) through the HTTP (hyper text transport protocol) transport using the data access algorithm generated. Site operators may specify initial logical data groupings. Mapping table entries may be continuously updated, and subsequent entries may be automatically generated based on the criteria that was used in the requesting query. Individual table entries may be influenced by a predetermined algorithm as designated by the industry that the site operator has selected. ;An additional embodiment provides a method, process and apparatus allowing a human to train a program that creates the mapping table, showing the apparatus various methods for finding dynamically generated data by example. The apparatus then uses the examples to generate the mapping table and the resulting mapping algorithms.