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G06F 17/30 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2416182

A software agent is provided which executes instructions on a local user's computer to retrieve potentially changing information content from remote target sources, including web pages, over a computer network, such as the Internet. Different types of software agents are available to retrieve different types of information content from remote sites. Agent types include a smart agent, a search agent, a custom agent for detailed tasks and an RSS agent for retrieving structured XML format documents from remote Internet sites. Information retrieved by the agents is formatted and stored locally for presentation in a publication on the local computer. Publication templates can display target content retrieved by multiple agents from many different remote target pages.

L'invention concerne un agent logiciel qui exécute des instructions dans un ordinateur personnel local afin d'extraire un contenu d'information potentiellement changeant à partir de sources cibles distantes, notamment des pages web, dans un réseau d'ordinateurs tel qu'Internet. Divers types d'agents logiciels sont disponibles pour l'extraction de différents types de contenu d'information depuis des sites distants. Ces types d'agents comprennent un agent intelligent, un agent d'interrogation, un agent personnalisé pour s'occuper de tâches détaillées, et un agent RSS pour extraire de sites Internet éloignés des documents structurés au format XML. Les informations extraites par les agents sont formatées et stockées localement afin d'être présentées sur l'ordinateur local. Des gabarits de publication peuvent présenter des contenus cibles extraits par de multiples agents à partir de nombreuses et diverses pages cibles éloignées.

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