115 results about "Web object" patented technology

The invention provides a method for predicting which network objects are likely to be requested by a web user from a web server, such as that used in conjunction with an internetworking environment. A request made by a web user for a web object is parsed and dynamic values contained therein normalized. A prediction is made based on the normalized request, statistical measures, and other factors about what other web objects the web user is likely to request. The predictive information is then made available to the web server and the predicted net objects are pre-downloaded to the Web client. A pre-download statistics server may be used to record and provide statistics to assist in the prediction process. Examples described herein relate to web pages, but the invention is broadly applicable to many different types of requests for information (such as, for example, database queries and other libraries of information.)

The present invention relates to Internet information services. In particular, the present invention relates to improvements related to and/or use of the Usenet. The present invention also has application to email systems, as well as other electronic distribution media. In one aspect, the present invention relates to the distribution, access and/or download speed of Web objects, and involves a new system design and method of use, providing a Usenet based alternative to the current Web caching and mirroring solutions. A second aspect of the present invention relates to a method that enables relatively transparent encoding within Web objects' URLs information necessary to locate the object in a Usenet server and retrieve it. The method also allows transparent retrieving of news cached objects from their original servers.

This disclosure is directed to methods and systems for delivering an item of web content requested by a client. An intermediary between a client and a server may intercept a request from the client to the server for an item of web content. The intermediary may split the item of web content into a plurality of fragments. The intermediary may identify, responsive to the request, a first fragment of the plurality of fragments to transmit to the client. The intermediary may inject executable code into the first fragment of the plurality of fragments. The executable code may be configured to conditionally incorporate additional fragments from the plurality of fragments into the first fragment at the client.

Admission of new objects into a memory such as a web cache is selectively controlled. If an object is not in the cache, but has been requested a specified number of prior occasions (e.g., if the object has been requested at least once before), it is admitted into the cache regardless of size. If the object has not previously been requested the specified number of times, the object is admitted into the cache if the object satisfies a specified size criterion (e.g., if it is smaller than the average size of objects currently stored in the cache). To make room for new objects, other objects are evicted from the cache on, e.g., a Least Recently Used (LRU) basis. The invention could be implemented on existing web caches, on distributed web caches, in client-side web caching, and in contexts unrelated to web object caching.

Web-based event/state-driven mechanisms and methods for simplifying communication between networked multifunction devices, such as copiers, printers, facsimile machines and multifunction devices using a networked database for the creation and presentation of device metrics and status data. Web-based multifunction performance metrics and calculations themselves are created within concurrent (multiple instances) of Web objects, wherein a Web object is a self-contained entity with data and a state machine lifecycle. State changes inside and outside the Web object are made by sending events to event queues and routing them to other state machines within other Web objects or instances of the same Web object. Data and events between Web objects are formed into a regular event syntax providing a simpler method of communication than those of procedural programming approaches. The arguments of the events are processed by specific instances of state machines that compose each Web object to perform an appropriate action. The metrics displays and corresponding calculations within the Web object's state machine are highly self-contained and concurrent, hiding networked database contention and database locking, and enforcing atomicity with it's runtime software. Calculations are performed and displayed from within a very small context within each Web object's state minimizing external communications and further simplifying software application development efforts.

The disclosure relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of reducing round trips associated with DNS lookups in ways that are substantially transparent to the user. Embodiments implement prefetching of DNS entries, sometimes piggybacking on the prefetching of associated web objects. In one embodiment, prefetching of an object continues according to other prefetching techniques, until the point where the HTML response may be parsed. When an embedded object request is identified, a DNS lookup is performed, and the resulting IP address is pushed to the client as part of a prefetch data package. In some embodiments, the client strips off the relevant portion of the prefetch data package to create a local DNS entry. The DNS entry may be used to locally handle DNS requests by the client, thereby potentially avoiding a round trip to a remote DNS.

The present invention relates to telecommunications devices, systems and methods for providing improved performance over long latency communications links. Some embodiments selectively pre-fetch and transmit information over the link using improved protocol and pre-fetch mechanisms. One system includes a first gateway (430) adapted to communicate with a client (410), the first gateway including a processor coupled to a storage medium. The storage medium includes code for receiving a request for retrieving a web object, code for forwarding the request to a second gateway (440) over the long latency link, and code for receiving a pre-fetch announcement and response data for the web object from the second gateway. The pre-fetch announcement is received prior to receiving the response data.

This disclosure is directed to methods and systems for managing delivery and rendering of an item of web content. An intermediary between a client and a server may intercept a request from the client to the server for an item of web content. The intermediary may split the item of web content into a first fragment and a plurality of fragments. The intermediary may inject, into the first fragment for delivery to the client, executable code and a plurality of unique identifiers corresponding to the plurality of fragments. The intermediary may send the first fragment to the client. The injected executable code may generate a request at the client to the server for a second fragment from the plurality of fragments responsive to detecting an event. The intermediary may intercept the request for the second fragment, and may send the second fragment to the client responsive to the request.

A system is configured to modify a website to optimize the website for an organic search of a topic. The system includes a data management module configured to receive search terms for the topic, receive related terms to the search terms for the topic, and receive website input data. The system also includes a scanning module configured to scan and index web pages and web objects in the website and identify a subset of web pages and web objects associated with the search terms and the related terms. The system also includes an optimizing module configured to process the subset of web pages and web objects from the website by prioritizing the subset of web pages and web objects or measuring a metric with respect to the subset of web pages and web objects. The search terms and related terms are deployed into the subset of web pages and web objects on the website based on the processing.

Prior to this invention, a virtual subdomain address could not have a file suffix because the virtual subdomain name in a URL did not refer to a standard host that the file suffix could be applied to. With the invention, the file suffix can be added to virtual subdomains through remapping the virtual-subdomain-domain-file-suffix combination or the virtual subdomain-file suffix combination to a new address where an action script then occurs. In creating this file suffix and remapping, the user enters a file suffix name and chooses an action script to associate with this file suffix name. When a browser requests a virtual-subdomain-domain-file-suffix combination through entering it through the browser's URL box, this URL request is redirected to an address with the mapped action script. The action script then typically causes the sending of response web objects containing information previously entered or programmed for that virtual subdomain-domain-file-suffix combination. The response information typically is a database driven webpage. This invention changes the way virtual subdomain URLs can be represented and makes it indistinguishable in appearance from a standard URL. Two applications are organizing web content of a virtual subdomain address and to provide a level of privacy, security, and communications paths to virtual subdomain addresses.

A web traffic visualization system includes a generation module configured to generate a web map. The web map includes web objects and links connecting the web objects, where the web objects are for a web site. The web traffic visualization system also includes an acceptance module configured to assign a unique ID to a visitor of the web site and receive a visitor action performed by the visitor on a web object in the web site tagged with the unique ID. The web traffic visualization system is further configured to include a visualization module configured to generate and display the visitor action on the web map in response to receiving the visitor action tagged with the unique ID.

The invention relates to an evidence-taking method of Web browser buffer memory data. In the method of the prior art, it is difficult to acquire click operation of the web and information which is acquired by users. The method comprises: inputting a Web browser data file and searched sensitive key words; resolving and pretreating an evidentiary document; conforming each record and other associated Web evidence into a Web object using Web browse record as a main line; selecting special Web object as a root node, constructing a Web tree according to link reference and web visit time between webs, construct a web evidence forest; performing intelligent search on the forest though input key words, obtaining relative web object; performing content analysis on relative Web object and Web tree; generating a Web evidence-taking report for the user to browse. The method of the invention is high in efficiency, strong in intelligibility and low in requirement on proficiency of investigators.

The invention is an Internet access system that puts together interactivity of the Internet and congestion-free content delivery inherent in broadcast media in order to reduce delays in content presentation. The system delivers any web object (web page, music file, video etc.) in two steps. First, a single copy of object is downloaded according to a standard Internet protocol into a server provided at a broadcast center no matter how many client computers have requested the object; then the copy is transmitted over a broadcast channel according to a data broadcast protocol so that all clients could download it simultaneously. A web object is transmitted as a flow of packets and the transmission is preceded with an announcement specifying a broadcast channel and a flow number. The packet header contains a flow number and a destination address that could be a client address or a broadcast address, thereby enabling an efficient handling of both one-to-one and one-to-many transmissions. The system provides, when necessary, a protection of transmitted content against unauthorized reception by biding packets identity and transmitting packets of the same content over different, pseudorandomly changing channels.

In one embodiment, a method for processing a client request for content comprises receiving, at an intermediary network node, a client request for content on a network. The client request is associated with a set of attributes indicating a requirement to process the requested content by multiple designated applications prior to transferring the requested content to a client. The method further comprises searching, at the intermediary network node, a content cache for matching content conforming to the processing requirement, and determining, at the intermediary network node, whether the matching content is currently valid. If this determination is positive, the matching content is transferred to the client.

SQL injection attack detection system adapting to high speed LAN environment comprises data acquisition module, data pretreatment module, filter module for object to be detected, SQL injection attack detection module and SQL injection alarming module. The data acquisition module acquires network data pack related with HTTP service from protected network; data pretreatment module resolves operation and establishes object to be detected and transmits to the filter module for object to be detected based on TCP stream reassembly and HTTp protocol; the filter module for object to be detected matches URL of every object to be detected according to filtering rule sequence established, and performs designated processing action of matched filtering rule. The Web object type of HTTP request is divided into static Web type and dynamic Web type; static Web type HTTP requests during real time SQL injection attack detection is filtered out, which largely relieves processing pressure for SQL injection attack detection module, reduces rate of false alarm.

Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating the ranking of web objects. The method includes automatically adjusting a plurality of weight values for a plurality of parameters for inputting into a ranking engine that is adapted to rank a plurality of web objects based on such weight values and their corresponding parameters. The adjusted weight values are provided to the ranking engine so as to generate a ranked set of web objects based on such adjusted weight values and their corresponding parameters, as well as a particular query. A relevance metric (e.g., that quantifies or qualifies how relevant the generated ranked set of web objects are for the particular query) is determined. The method includes automatically repeating the operations of adjusting the weight values, providing the adjusted weight values to the ranking engine, and determining a relevance metric until the relevance metric reaches an optimized level, which corresponds to an optimized set of weight values. The repeated operations utilize one or more sets of weight values including at least one set that results in a worst relevance metric value, as compared to a previous set of weight values, according to a certain probability in order to escape local optimal solution to reach the global optimal solution.

An architecture and methodology of redirection for dynamic new URL Links uses a first server device to get information flow content from a second server device. By inserting an application into the information flow content retrieved from the second server device, the first server device replaces the web objects, which may generate dynamic new URL links, with the redirect functions in the code and sends the content to the browser. The browser will execute the code automatically. Whenever the browser generates new dynamic new URL links, it would call the provided redirect functions, and thus redirect them and retrace back to the first server device.

In a Web information preferential transfer system, two priorities, personal priority and site priority can be set on the site of a user. On the site of a user, the site priority which can be set by a LAN-side proxy server is the priority of when a request is made. A WAN-side proxy server installed on the provider side extracts the site priority of the request, converts it to the final priority according to the communication state and settings, converts the final priority to a preferential control parameter of an IP packet of a Web object in response to the Web request, and relays it to the LAN-side proxy server. Preferential control may be made based on the final priority in the WAN-side proxy server. Charging by the provider is performed based on the communication contents used and the requested priority.

A method and system for responding to a request from a client for a web page using delta caching is described. Building templates for the web at the server(s) is functionally separated and logically remote from the request server. One or more template-builders are logically separated from one or more delta-encoders. Each operates independently to perform its part of delta caching; template-builders build templates for the web page, while delta-encoders use those templates and a received web object to compute delta information for the web page. Delta-encoders, like template-builders, are logically remote from the request server. The delta information for the web page and a reference to the template can be separately sent to the client.

A method of providing a virtual reality-based three-dimensional interface for a web object search and a real time metadata representations and a web search system using the three-dimensional interface thereof are provided. In this method, a plurality of nodes each in which a node identification label string to which an information page is linked is together written and a plurality of links connecting the plurality of nodes, respectively, are displayed in a three-dimensional form that is either static or spinning. Thereafter, by performing an action of reduction, enlargement, movement, rotation, expanding, hiding, removal, and addition in a three-dimensional object that is formed with the node and the link that are displayed in the three-dimensional form according to a user input, the three-dimensional object is displayed or an information page that is linked to a node that is selected by the user is displayed.