Network Gateway Bookmark Update Mechanism
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Inefficient data communications occur due to invalid bookmarks, leading to extraneous messaging and strain on telecommunications equipment, as users continue to invoke bookmarks pointing to non-functional URLs, causing browsers to receive redirect messages and send new requests, which burden network infrastructure.
Innovation Solution
A network gateway detects content requests generated from bookmarked links, receives redirect messages, and modifies them to include bookmark-update data, instructing client devices to update the bookmarks to point to new valid URLs, thereby reducing unnecessary traffic and improving communication efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users continue to invoke bookmarked links, then bookmark functionality is maintained, but network traffic increases due to redirect messages and extraneous messaging
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway performs preliminary detection of invalid bookmarks before the client device attempts to access them. By proactively identifying invalid bookmarks through redirect message analysis and notifying the client device in advance, the system prevents unnecessary repeated access attempts and reduces network traffic while maintaining bookmark functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway implements a feedback mechanism where redirect messages are analyzed and bookmark update notifications are sent back to the client device. This feedback loop allows the client device to learn about invalid bookmarks and update its bookmark list, thereby reducing future extraneous messaging and network traffic.
2Reliability
If the browser sends new requests after receiving redirect messages, then content access is maintained, but telecommunications equipment is strained
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway acts as an intermediary between the client device and the network. It intercepts and analyzes redirect messages, detects invalid bookmarks, and communicates update information to the client device. This intermediary role prevents the client device from generating unnecessary new requests, thereby reducing strain on telecommunications equipment while maintaining content access reliability.
3Manufacturing precision
If the gateway modifies redirect messages to include bookmark-update data, then bookmark accuracy is improved, but message complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway merges bookmark update information with existing redirect messages by adding custom header fields. This combining approach allows the transmission of bookmark accuracy improvements within the existing message framework, minimizing the increase in message complexity while achieving better bookmark accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
A method is disclosed for receiving at a network gateway a message generated in response to a content request, wherein the content request was generated by a client device in response to invocation of an invalid bookmarked link on a browser. The gateway may then modify the message by inserting bookmark-update data that instructs the client device to update the bookmarked link. Finally, the gateway may send the modified message to the client device, whereby the client device may update the bookmarked link.