US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Extracting content from a resource for restructuring based on user instruction" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,500, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Extracting content from a resource for restructuring based on user instruction" was invented by Jack David Tobin (Maynooth, Ireland) and Andre Michael McQuaid (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system for providing a service to extract information from a resource includes: a network interface for communicating over a computer network; a scraper tool to receive user instruction specifying a target resource and to extract content from the specified resource, wherein the user instruction further specifies a desired restruc...