Recovery of Information from Commercial Web Portals

摘要

Novel tools and techniques for automated recovery of information from commercial web portals, including commercial web portals requiring credentials for access. In some instances images are captured and pushed to external processes for improving system performance. In some instances access to automated software agent remote control modules is balanced across a system comprising a plurality of processors hosting the automated software agent remote control modules. Some instances provide provisioning of credentials, in particular indicating credentials available for an unlimited or a select limited number of users and monitoring credential use of those credentials usable by a select number of users. Some instances provide cache management optimizes retrieval of data by external processes and ensures reliability of such data to reduce unnecessary web portal inquiries.

主权项

1. A method of load balancing automated software agent remote control module reservations across an automated software agent grid comprising more than one cloud processor hosting automated software agent remote control modules, the method comprising:
providing a global automated software agent remote control module pool database, the global automated software agent remote control module pool database comprising a list of web browsers supported by the automated software agent; providing an automated software agent remote control module provisioner database, the software agent remote control module provisioner database comprising a list of processors hosting automated software agent remote control modules; providing a remote control database comprising a list of automated software agent remote control modules associated with each processor; receiving, with a computer system, a user request for an automated software agent remote control module; matching, with the computer system, the user request to one of the set of web browsers; querying, with the computer system, the software agent remote control module provisioner database to identify a processor of the list of processors having the fewest active automated software agent remote control modules supporting the matched web browsers; selecting an automated software agent remote control module hosted by the identified processor; and returning, in response to the request, a reference to the selected automated software agent remote control module.