Web Server URL Change Detection and Redirect Page Generation

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing server systems and image forming apparatuses face challenges in seamlessly handling changes to URLs, leading to user inconvenience and lack of immediate reflection of updates in web service access, particularly in scenarios where URL changes are not reflected without delay.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating a URL change detection unit, a temporary page generation unit, and a display contents determination unit within the server system to detect URL changes and generate temporary pages with new settings, ensuring users are directed to the correct access destination even after system restarts or delays in change reflection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If URL changes are implemented in the system, then the system can be updated and improved, but the changes are not reflected immediately causing user inconvenience and access failures

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveURL update capabilityVSAvoidAccess reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by detecting URL changes and proactively generating redirect pages before users attempt to access the updated content. The detection unit monitors URL changes, and the page generation unit creates redirect pages in advance, ensuring users are automatically directed to the correct location without experiencing access failures due to outdated URLs in their browsers or bookmarks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of energy

If the system waits for user access to detect URL changes, then resource consumption is minimized, but user experience deteriorates due to link expiration issues

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveResource consumptionVSAvoidUser experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of energyVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by detecting URL changes and proactively generating redirect pages before users attempt to access the updated content. The detection unit monitors URL changes, and the page generation unit creates redirect pages in advance, ensuring users are automatically directed to the correct location without experiencing access failures due to outdated URLs in their browsers or bookmarks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If automatic redirect is implemented for all URL changes, then user convenience is improved, but system complexity increases due to additional detection and generation units

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveUser convenienceVSAvoidSystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements universality by integrating the URL change detection and redirect page generation functionality into the existing web server architecture. The detection unit can identify various types of URL changes (hostname changes, path changes, parameter changes), and the page generation unit handles different redirect scenarios uniformly, making the system versatile while managing complexity through a unified approach.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10552102B2Image forming apparatus, and web server system for generating content based on detected change

Publication Date: 2020.02.04 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

A server apparatus includes a detection unit and a generation unit. The detection unit detects a change in information to be used for access to content provided by a web service. The generation unit generates, in a case where the change is detected, second content in which the information with new settings is added to first content which is associated with the information before the change.