NETWORKED ARCHITECTURE FOR ENABLING AUTOMATED GATHERING OF INFORMATION FROM WEB SERVERS

摘要

A data-gathering and reporting system for collecting WEB summaries from the Internet for individual subscribers to a Portal subscription system has a plurality of gatherer servers (137), each connected to the Internet (109), to an ascending hierarchy of work request distribution servers (135) and (136), and to a ascending hierarchy of collector servers (133). A work request generator at the top of the hierarchy of distribution servers gathers work requests for collecting WEB summaries, and a filer server (131) at the top of the hierarchy of collector servers writes data to an database (129). Work flow is by work requests generator down the hierarchy of distributor servers to the gatherer servers, where work requests are accomplished by gathering WEB summaries from Internet servers, and by data collected from the gatherer servers up the hierarchy to the filing server.