System and method for processing web-browsing information

• US 10,230,572 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2014
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adversitement B.V. (Digital Power BV), Insite Innovations And Properties B.V.
• Original Assignee: Insite Innovations And Properties B.V.
• Inventors: Smits, David, Budziak, Guido
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Quang N
• Application Number:
  US14/423,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20150222481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,761 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709213, 709224, 709219, 707706, 711135, 705 1464
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The information processing platform (100, 200) includes:

• • an auxiliary web server (11, 110);
  • a back-end server (12, 120);
    wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to:
  • receive information relating to a web client (10, 150) query; and
  • forward the information to the back-end server, and
    wherein the back-end server is configured to:
  • process the information according to instructions codified in a configuration file (14, 140); and
  • store the processed information in the data storage.

Claims

1. An information processing platform comprising:

a web server;

an auxiliary web server; and

a back-end server,

wherein the web server includes an executable code in a requested web page, said executable code containing instructions to send information relating to a web client query to the auxiliary web server;

wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to;

receive the information from the web server relating to a web client query; and

forward the information received from the web server to the back-end server, and

wherein the back-end server is configured to;

process the information, sent from the web server via the auxiliary web server, according to instructions codified in a configuration file to obtain processed information.

2. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the back-end server is configured to:

provide the processed information to a recommender system for generating additional data to be sent to the web client.

3. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the back-end server is configured to:

provide the processed information to a data storage interface for partially or completely storing the processed information.

4. The platform according to claim 1, further comprising a proxy server configured to:

forward a request from a web client to the web server;

receive a reply from the web server for the web client;

send information based on the request and/or the reply to the auxiliary web server as information relating to a web client query.

5. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the forwarding of the information to the back-end server by the auxiliary web server is conditional on a check, by the auxiliary web server, of a privacy setting relating to the web client, such as the contents of a cookie.

6. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the back-end server is configured to obtain the configuration file from the web server.

7. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the configuration file specifies which elements of the information relating to the web client query are to be aggregated in the processed information.

8. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the configuration file references data elements identified by HTML element identification.

9. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the configuration file comprises template SQL instructions for instructing a SQL database to store selected data.

10. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to request additional data from a web server.

11. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the configuration file is received from a web server.

12. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to process the information relating to a web client query prior to forwarding the information to the back-end server.

13. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary web server receives additional data from the back-end server after forwarding the information to the back-end server.

14. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to send additional HTML data based on data received from a web server or the back-end server to the web client.

15. The platform according to claim 1, wherein the back-end server is configured to receive data from a data storage.

16. A method for processing information, the method comprising:

including, by a web server, an executable code in a requested web page, said executable code containing instructions to send information relating to a web client query to an auxiliary web server;

receiving from the web server, by the auxiliary web server, a request including the information relating to a web client query;

the auxiliary web server retrieving a configuration file;

the auxiliary web server checking user consent for processing the information received from the web server;

the auxiliary web server sending the information received from the web server to a back-end server for processing and/or storage.

17. The method for processing information according to claim 16, further comprising:

the back-end server receiving the information relating to a web client query from the auxiliary web serving, wherein the information relating to the web client query comprises information about a requested web page;

the back-end server interpreting instructions codified in a configuration file;

the back-end server retrieving information elements from the information according to the instructions; and

the back-end server processing the retrieved information elements.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein interpreting the instructions codified in the configuration file comprises:

the back-end server matching a data item comprised in the information relating to a web client query against a value in the configuration file.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the data item comprised in the information relating to a web client query is an URL of the requested web page.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein interpreting the instructions codified in the configuration file comprises:

the back-end server extracting selected data from the information relating to a web client query and assigning said selected data to a named variable; and

the back-end server formatting selected named variables to obtain formatted output.