System and method for searching deep web services

Abstract

A system and method for searching deep web services are provided. The system and method in one aspect allow organizing communities, sources and schema attributes in a multi-tier containment relationship; searching representative schema attributes in one or more communities; searching representative services in one or more communities; searching for related schema attributes; and searching for related communities.

1 . A method of searching deep web services, comprising:
 searching a plurality of deep web service sources in one or more deep web service communities;   looking-up one or more schema attributes associated with each of the plurality of deep web services sources;   incrementing a count associated with each of the one or more schema attributes; and   returning a predetermined K number of most frequently occurring schema attributes based on the count associated with each of the one or more schema attributes.   
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , further including:
 receiving at least one of a source and a community as an input for searching; and   if the input is a source, finding a deep web service community to which the source belongs and the step of searching includes searching a plurality of deep web service sources in the deep web service community.   
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 1 , further including:
 searching for the predetermined K number of most frequently occurring schema attributes in a plurality of deep web service sources in one or more deep web service communities;   determining for each of the plurality of deep web service sources, a number of occurrences of the predetermined K number of most frequently occurring schema attributes; and   returning one or more deep web service sources that are determined to have more than a predetermined L number of occurrences of one or more of the predetermined K number of most frequently occurring schema attributes.   
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 3 , further including:
 receiving at least one of an attribute and keyword as an input for searching; and   finding a deep web service community to which the attribute or the keyword belongs, and the step of searching includes searching for the predetermined K number of most frequently occurring schema attributes in a plurality of deep web service sources in the deep web service community.   
   
   
       5 . The method of  claim 1 , further including:
 receiving at least one of a source, an attribute, and a keyword as an input for searching; and   finding a deep web service community to which the source, the attribute, or the keyword belongs.   
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 1 , further including:
 receiving a user specified schema attribute;   if the user specified schema attribute is found in a set of schema attributes associated with each of the plurality of deep web service sources, incrementing one or more co-occurrence counts associated with one or more schema attributes in the set; and   returning a predetermined M number of most frequently occurring co-occurred attributes based on the one or more co-occurrence counts.   
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 1 , further including:
 receiving a user specified community;   for each deep web service community, determining a count of schema attributes matching one or more schema attributes in the user specified community; and   returning one or more deep web service community having greater than a predetermined N number of matching schema attributes.   
   
   
       8 . The method of  claim 1 , further including:
 receiving a user specified source;   for each deep web service source, determining a count of schema attributes matching one or more schema attributes in the user specified source; and   returning one or more deep web service source having greater than a predetermined N number of matching schema attributes.   
   
   
       9 . A system for searching deep web services, comprising:
 a processor operable to search a plurality of deep web service sources in one or more deep web service communities, the processor further operable to look-up one or more schema attributes associated with each of the plurality of deep web service sources, the processor further operable to increment a count associated with each of the one or more schema attributes and to return a predetermined K number of most frequently occurring schema attributes based on the count associated with each of the one or more schema attributes.