Reading through the patent application itself, I wonder if this also proposal has applicability to Cisco Pulse (in an expanded view of what a search engine might be), given that the language also mentions a "webgraph". Perhaps this information also might describe how Cisco could possibly examine social graph connections as people-to-people connection requests traverse a network. Worth reading the article below:
Will Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors? | NetworkWorld.com Community
Cisco has filed a patent application on a method that seeds search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic. Cisco's method includes monitoring data packets exchanged in a computer network over which documents having respective location identifiers are distributed, so as to detect a request to access a given document. A location identifier of the given document is extracted from the request. The location identifier is provided to a search engine that searches for data in a set of the documents, so as to cause the search engine to add the given document to the set.
Will Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors? | NetworkWorld.com Community
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