Instant Messaging URL Validation via Browser History
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing instant messaging technologies fail to ensure accurate entry of network resource addresses, such as URLs, due to the informality of the communication medium and the sensitivity of these addresses to even slight typing errors.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that validate character strings entered in instant messaging client applications by comparing them against the web browser's history of visited addresses, providing a list of matching network resource addresses for user selection, ensuring correct entry and accessibility of the intended resource.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If instant messaging allows informal and spontaneous communication, then ease of operation is improved, but accuracy of network resource address entry deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically retrieving and presenting a list of previously visited network resource addresses from the web browser history before the user needs to enter a URL. This allows the user to quickly select from known valid addresses rather than typing them, ensuring accuracy while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that acts as a bridge between the informal instant messaging environment and the precise requirements of network resource addresses. The intermediary is a validation mechanism that compares entered addresses against browser history, providing automated verification without requiring manual typing precision.
2Manufacturing precision
If the system validates character strings against browser history, then accuracy of network resource address entry is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by utilizing the existing web browser history functionality for a dual purpose: both for tracking user navigation and for validating instant messaging address entries. This eliminates the need for a separate validation database or mechanism, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service by automatically leveraging the browser's own history data to perform validation. The browser history, which already exists as part of normal web browsing operations, is repurposed to provide automated address verification without requiring additional user input or complex external validation services.
3Reliability
If the system provides a list of matching network resource addresses for user selection, then reliability is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by providing only the necessary information - a list of matching network resource addresses from browser history that are relevant to the current messaging context. This selective provision of information ensures reliability by filtering out irrelevant entries while minimizing the time required for validation compared to checking all possible addresses.
Data Source
AI summary
A character string can be received. A determination can be made of whether the received character string includes or is a request for a network resource. When it is determined that the received character string comprises a request for a network resource, an identical network resource address can be determined from a browser history of a web browser. The identical network resource address can be communicated to an instant messaging client application.