URI Status Verification and Notification System

Solution Overview

Problem

Users are unable to determine if a web page linked via a URI in an email or message is accessible, as the page can be deleted by the administrator without prior notification, and existing systems do not provide real-time status updates of linked resources.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and medium that obtain content, extract resource information, and notify users if the linked resource's state satisfies a predetermined condition, such as being inaccessible, by storing and monitoring URI states in a notification database and sending alerts when changes occur.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a URI is written in an email or web page to link documents, then it is possible to refer to the web page by operating the URI, but the web page may be deleted by the administrator without prior notification, making the link broken and unusable

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelink functionalityVSAvoidlink availability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of the URI's accessibility before the user attempts to use the link. By checking whether the web page exists and is accessible in advance, the system prevents broken link errors from occurring during user interaction, thereby maintaining link reliability while preserving adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to the user about the current status of the URI-linked resource. By notifying users whether the web page is accessible or has been deleted, the system enables informed decision-making about link usage, resolving the contradiction between maintaining link functionality and ensuring link availability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of manufacture

If a URI is written in an email or web page to link documents, then it is possible to create links between documents, but until operating the URI, it is not possible to know whether or not the web page is deleted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelink creationVSAvoidresource status information

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of the URI's accessibility before the user attempts to use the link. By checking whether the web page exists and is accessible in advance, the system prevents broken link errors from occurring during user interaction, thereby maintaining link reliability while preserving adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to the user about the current status of the URI-linked resource. By notifying users whether the web page is accessible or has been deleted, the system enables informed decision-making about link usage, resolving the contradiction between maintaining link functionality and ensuring link availability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11537681B2Verifying status of resources linked to communications and notifying interested parties of status changes

Publication Date: 2022.12.27 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining section that obtains a content; a linking section that extracts resource information indicating a resource from the content obtained by the obtaining section and links the content, a notification destination, and the extracted resource information; and a notification section that obtains a state of the resource indicated by the resource information and in a case where the obtained state satisfies a predetermined condition, transmits a notification to the notification destination linked with the resource information.