Community Server External Content Insertion Method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Community homepages typically rely on user-generated content, limiting access to external information relevant to community interests, such as news or expert information, unless users upload it themselves.
Innovation Solution
A method to integrate external web server content into community homepages by generating interest content requests, transmitting and transforming search results or board postings into XML or HTML formats, and inserting them dynamically based on user requests and manager settings, allowing for real-time updates and customizable content display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If community homepage relies on user-generated content only, then community members can control content quality, but external information relevance is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (community server with external information acquisition module) that automatically fetches external information and integrates it with community content. This mediator enables seamless information integration without requiring users to manually visit external websites or upload content, resolving the contradiction between information accessibility and user operation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service by automatically acquiring, processing, and integrating external information into the community homepage without requiring manual user intervention. The community server autonomously performs information gathering from external sources and adapts it to community needs, eliminating the burden of manual content collection while enriching information availability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If community homepage integrates external web server content, then information diversity increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the information integration system into distinct functional modules: external information acquisition module, information processing module, and integration module. Each module handles specific tasks independently, making the complex system manageable and maintainable. The acquisition module fetches external content, the processing module validates and formats it, and the integration module incorporates it into the community homepage seamlessly.
Solution Approach 2:
The community server is designed as a universal platform that can integrate various types of external information sources (websites, APIs, data feeds) into the community homepage. The system handles multiple content formats and sources through unified processing mechanisms, enabling diverse information integration without proportionally increasing system complexity.
3Loss of information
If community homepage displays latest external information, then information timeliness improves, but data update frequency increases system load
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-fetching and caching external information at scheduled intervals rather than waiting for real-time requests. The community server proactively updates external content databases at predetermined times, so when users access the homepage, the latest information is already prepared and stored, reducing real-time processing load while maintaining information timeliness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements periodic action through scheduled information updates at predetermined time intervals. Instead of continuous real-time fetching, the system updates external content at regular cycles (e.g., hourly, daily), balancing information freshness with system resource consumption. This periodic mechanism ensures latest information availability while controlling processing load to sustainable levels.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a method for inserting contents provided by external web server in community homepage. Community manager sets up key word or search category regarding interest contents, the key word and search category information is transmitted to predetermined web server. The web server derives contents corresponding to key word and search category, the derived contents information is transmitted to community server from the web server. The community server transforms search result information into HTML format and insert in community homepage. Users of community can obtain information which is not uploaded by community members.