Webpage Access Record Entropy Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing webpage access tools require multiple fallback operations to return to a home page from deep webpages, reducing access efficiency due to the need to sequentially navigate through historical access records.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that determine the information entropy of each webpage based on its location and historical access number, storing only records with entropies greater than a preset threshold to improve navigation efficiency by caching frequently accessed pages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If all accessed webpages are stored in historical access records, then complete browsing history is preserved, but navigation efficiency deteriorates when returning from deep webpages due to multiple sequential fallback operations required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of browsing historyVSAvoidnavigation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and caches only the most frequently accessed webpages (such as homepages and frequently visited pages) from the complete browsing history, separating them from less important pages. This extraction principle allows the system to maintain a compact cache of high-value pages that can be quickly accessed, while still preserving the option to retrieve complete history when needed, thus resolving the contradiction between history completeness and navigation speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different quality levels to different pages in the browsing history by identifying and marking frequently accessed pages with higher priority. This local quality differentiation enables the system to provide optimized fast access for important pages while maintaining standard access for others, effectively resolving the contradiction by making the navigation system adaptive to the actual usage patterns of different pages.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Stability of the object's composition

If multiple fallback operations are performed to return from deep webpages, then complete navigation path is maintained, but webpage access efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintegrity of navigation pathVSAvoidwebpage access efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-calculating and storing the navigation paths from deep webpages back to frequently accessed pages (such as homepages) in advance. When a user needs to navigate back, the system can directly retrieve these pre-computed paths instead of performing multiple sequential fallback operations, thus maintaining navigation path integrity while dramatically improving access efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the cache system with pre-computed navigation paths) that mediates between the deep webpage and the frequently accessed page. This intermediary provides optimized navigation routes, allowing users to bypass multiple sequential fallback operations while still maintaining the integrity of the navigation path through the cache's structured storage and retrieval mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If all webpage access records are cached, then quick access to any historical page is enabled, but storage space consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewebpage access speedVSAvoidstorage space
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the most valuable and frequently accessed webpages from the complete browsing history and stores them in the cache, rather than caching all pages. This extraction based on access frequency and importance allows the system to maintain fast access speed for critical pages while minimizing storage space consumption by excluding less important pages from the cache.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of cache storage from storing all pages uniformly to storing only high-priority pages identified by access frequency and importance metrics. This parameter change in the caching strategy enables the system to optimize the balance between access speed and storage space by dynamically adjusting which pages are cached based on their actual usage patterns and value.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11403365B2Method and apparatus for storing webpage access records
Publication Date: 2022.08.02 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for storing webpage access records includes: obtaining an information entropy of each webpage accessed by a user, the information entropy being determined according to location of each webpage in a website and historical access number of the user for each webpage; keeping access records of webpages whose information entropies are greater than a preset threshold value. When a user accesses webpages, an information entropy of each webpage accessed by the user can be determined according to location of each accessed webpage in a website and historical access number of the user for each accessed webpage. Thus, webpage history records can be stored according to size of information entropies, so that the user is able to quickly navigate to a corresponding page when the user needs to access the same webpage again, thereby improving webpage access efficiency.