Providing network resources based on available user information

• US 10,027,598 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Seaward, Leona
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUOC H
• Application Number:
  US14/707,746
• Publication Number:
  US 20160330133A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,166 Days
• Field of Search: 709217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/78 Architectures of resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing network resources based on available user information. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining a set of user information, receiving a request to access a network resource, and in response to receiving the request to access the network resource, determining user information requested by the network resource. Additional actions include determining whether the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the network resource and in response to determining that the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the network resource, selecting a particular network resource to provide in response to the request. Further actions include in response to selecting the particular network resource, providing the particular network resource in response to the request.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method executed by one or more processors, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a web server, a set of user information;

receiving, by the web server, after the web server obtains the set of user information, a request from a client device to access a particular web page;

in response to receiving the request to access the particular web page, identifying, by the server through analysis of code that encodes the particular webpage, fields in a form in the particular webpage for which access is requested;

determining, by the web server, user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested;

determining, by the web server, whether the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested; and

in response to determining that the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested, providing, by the web server, to the client device, and in response to the request to access the particular web page, a different web page to which the form in the particular web page links instead of providing the particular web page for which access is actually requested.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page comprises:

determining a first type of user information requested by a first field the form in the particular web page; and

determining a different, second type of user information requested by a second field in the form in the particular web page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page comprises:

determining one or more types of user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page; and

determining whether the set of user information includes user information that correspond to the one or more types of user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page comprises:

generating, by the web server, a form with the fields based at least on the code that encodes the particular web page;

populating, by the web server, the fields of the form with at least a portion of the set of user information;

submitting, by the web server, the form with the populated fields; and

determining, by the web server, whether the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the form in the particular web page based on whether the form is successfully submitted.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining whether the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the form in the particular web page based on whether the form is successfully submitted comprises:

determining whether submission of the form results in a different webpage instead of a notification that submission failed or a notification to change information populated in the form.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request to access a particular web page indicates a particular universal resource locator associated with the particular web page.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the set of user information includes obtaining at least a portion of the set of user information after determining whether the set of user information satisfies the user information requested by the particular web page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing, by the web server, to the client device, and in response to the request to access the particular web page, a different web page to which the form in the particular web page links instead of providing the particular web page for which access is actually requested, comprises:

providing, by the web server, to the client device, and in response to the request to access the particular web page, a different web page to which the form in the particular web page would direct the client device after the user information is input into the form and the form is submitted, instead of providing the particular web page for which access is actually requested.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying, by the server through analysis of code that encodes the particular webpage, fields in a form in the particular webpage for which access is requested comprises:

identifying the fields by analyzing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code that encodes the form.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

obtaining, by a web server, a set of user information;

receiving, by the web server, after the web server obtains the set of user information, a request from a client device to access a particular web page;

in response to receiving the request to access the particular web page, identifying, by the server through analysis of code that encodes the particular webpage, fields in a form in the particular webpage for which access is requested;

determining, by the web server, user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested;

determining, by the web server, whether the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested; and

in response to determining that the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested, providing, by the web server, to the client device, and in response to the request to access the particular web page, a different web page to which the form in the particular web page links instead of providing the particular web page for which access is actually requested.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein determining user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page comprises:

determining a first type of user information requested by a first field the form in the particular web page; and

determining a different, second type of user information requested by a second field in the form in the particular web page.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein determining whether the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page comprises:

determining one or more types of user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page; and

determining whether the set of user information includes user information that correspond to the one or more types of user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the request to access a particular web page indicates a particular universal resource locator associated with the particular web page.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein providing the web page includes generating a web page populated with at least a portion of the user information requested by the particular web page.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, by a web server, a set of user information;

receiving, by the web server, after the web server obtains the set of user information, a request from a client device to access a particular web page;

in response to receiving the request to access the particular web page, identifying, by the server through analysis of code that encodes the particular webpage, fields in a form in the particular webpage for which access is requested;

determining, by the web server, user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested;

determining, by the web server, whether the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested; and

in response to determining that the set of user information obtained prior to receiving the request to access the particular page satisfies the user information requested by the fields identified in the form in the particular web page for which access is requested, providing, by the web server, to the client device, and in response to the request to access the particular web page, a different web page to which the form in the particular web page links instead of providing the particular web page for which access is actually requested.