Excerpt from the patent specification:
Equipped with the new and unique URLIT, the user creates a UAML-enabled Web page (an HTML document) in which the URLIT is included per UAML standards 618. The user then uploads this page to his or her website 619. The user then logs into his or her UET Company account and submits the listing for activation 620. An initial validation process, depicted in FIG. 12A, is followed to determine whether the listing is accepted for inclusion in the UET system 621. If accepted 610, a new record is created in a Central Listings Database 613, this record including fields such as those depicted in FIG. 14. The UAML parser software then extracts the UAML-tagged data and maps this data to corresponding fields in the Central Listings Database and a subject-specific database that corresponds to the particular type of listing 614, if any, specified in the listing. The subject-specific database and the LTD applicable to the listing are identified in a “UAML type” element, for which example data appears in FIG. 13. Data in UAML elements are extracted and entered into the corresponding fields in the UET Company database as exemplified in FIG. 15.
An identical copy of the page in which the new listing appears is stored in the snapshots database 615 for use in a later comparison, such as a comparison used in a process for confirming continued validity of the listing, depicted in FIG. 19A.
Since the listing appears on the user’s own website, the user is free to promote the web page and listing by whatever means he or she deems appropriate, including submission of the given URL to search engines not affiliated with the UET Company 616. In this way, the easy capturing of a static web page is combined with the power of field-by-field searching and the database-driven flexibility of dynamically generated content as described below.
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