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An information locator system providing for the expedient acquisition, validation and updating of information locators in a heterogenous network protocol environment. The locator system includes an information location discrimination engine coupleable to a network operating in the heterogeneous netw

An information locator system providing for the expedient acquisition, validation and updating of information locators in a heterogenous network protocol environment. The locator system includes an information location discrimination engine coupleable to a network operating in the heterogeneous network protocol environment, a validation engine coupled to the information location discrimination engine to receive information locators and a database providing for the storage of information locators as discrete searchable resource locators. The validation engine is also connected to the data base for retrieving and storing resource locators. The validation engine provides for the autonomous interrogation of the heterogeneous network protocol environment to validate a predetermined information locator as a corresponding resource locator that is unique to the discrete searchable resource locators then stored by the database. Where a valid and inferred unique information locator is found, the validation engine provides a corresponding resource locator to the data base for subsequently searchable storage.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A system of autonomously maintaining a searchable database of information accessible over the Internet, said system comprising:a) a discrimination system coupleable to the Internet to receive messages including electronic mail messages and network news messages, said discrimination

[ I claim:] [1.] A system of autonomously maintaining a searchable database of information accessible over the Internet, said system comprising:a) a discrimination system coupleable to the Internet to receive messages including electronic mail messages and network news messages, said discrimination processing said electronic mail and network news messages to identify embedded URLs; andb) a validation system coupleable to the Internet, said validation system coupled to said discrimination system to receive a predetermined embedded URL, said validation system enabling an access of the Internet to retrieve Web page information associated with said predetermined embedded URL; andc) a database for searchably storing said predetermined embedded URL in association with the Web page information associated with said predetermined embedded URL.