公开(公告)号：GB2377783B

公开(公告)日：2005-04-27

申请号：GB0117876

申请日：2001-07-20

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： HUGHES JEREMY PETER JAMES ,  TATE RICHARD PETER JAMES

IPC: G06F21/55 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F1/00

公开(公告)号：GB2377783A

公开(公告)日：2003-01-22

申请号：GB0117876

申请日：2001-07-20

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： HUGHES JEREMY PETER JAMES ,  TATE RICHARD PETER JAMES

IPC: G06F21/55 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F1/00

Abstract: The distributed data processing system has a server, which stores the information, a logging tool for creating a log file, and a client computer comprising an application program for controlling a software agent such as a robot. When the software agent requests information from the server, a process to identify the software agent is invoked. In response to the identification, all the requests from the identified software agent are stored in the log file and this data in the log file is analysed. The data is also utilised in the process of monitoring the behaviour of the identified software agent. In response to the monitoring process, at least one of a plurality of pre-defined rules is invoked, in order to control the behaviour of the identified software agent. The system is particularly applicable to controlling the access of a robot to a web site. Dummy links are inserted into web pages, and robots are identified, using a probabilistic threshold approach, based on the number of those dummy links which are followed.