System for transforming mobile app into addressable network for stateless access

• US 10,049,167 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2015
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Weisman, Omri, Sankaranarasimhan, Manikandan, Zilberstein, Benny, Rajuan, Yehuda, Elad, Idan, Nozik, Ran, Desineni, Kalyan, Cohen, Eli
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Michael C
• Application Number:
  US14/986,537
• Publication Number:
  US 20170193125A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/668 Internet protocol [IP] address subnets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5061 Pools of addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A computer system includes a master controller that receives an HTTP request for a first URL. The URL indicates a first state of a first mobile application. A navigation controller navigates to the first state of the first mobile application within a device. A content scraper extracts content from the first state and identifies forward links to corresponding additional states of the first mobile application. The computer system includes an output formatter configured to package the content and the forward links into an HTTP response and transmit the HTTP response to a source of the first HTTP request. The HTTP response includes a forward URL for each additional state of the first mobile application reachable from the first state. For each additional state, the forward URL includes an indicator of the first mobile application and a path to reach the additional state within the first mobile application.

Claims

1. A method for managing web crawling of mobile applications utilizing a set of emulators running on an emulator server, the method comprising:

receiving, from a web crawler, a first hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request for a first uniform resource locator (URL);

identifying a first state of a first mobile application based on the first URL;

selecting, in response to the first mobile application being installed on an emulator of the set of emulators running on the emulator server, the emulator;

navigating to the first state of the first mobile application installed on the selected emulator;

extracting data and metadata from the first state of the first mobile application installed on the selected emulator;

identifying forward links to additional states of the first mobile application installed on the selected emulator, wherein each forward link is a path to navigate from the first state to one of the additional states;

creating an HTTP response including (i) the data, (ii) the metadata, and (iii) the forward links using extensible markup language (XML); and

transmitting the HTTP response to the web crawler.