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Internet Patent Medtron currently holds U.S. Patent 6,810,414 for automatic internet data capture. Title "System and methods for easy-to-use periodic network data capture engine
with automatic target data location, extraction and storage" Abstract
System and methods for automatically capturing and storing data from a network is disclosed. The system and methods include easy-to-use graphical user interfaces; integration with Web browsers; point-and-click selection of data targets; automatic input element parameter substitution to retrieve multiple pages from a single network address; periodic Web page retrieval from network servers at pre-specified intervals; dynamic tag string matching to locate text data on variable format HTML and XML pages; dynamic tree matching to locate data nodes in variable document object model representations of HTML and XML data; intelligent character recognition of graphical HTML or XML elements; graphical database, database table and table record creation; and automatic creation of formatted data files or direct storage to database
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