Identification of sequential browsing operations

• US 10,353,984 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2013
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ionescu, Paul, Onut, Iosif Viorel
• Primary Examiner(s): Stork, Kyle R
• Application Number:
  US14/026,223
• Publication Number:
  US 20140082480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,132 Days
• Field of Search: 715234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/02 Comparing digital values G06F7/06, G06F7/22, G06F7/38 take precedence

Abstract

Identifying sequential browsing operations includes receiving session data associated with a plurality of sessions, creating a reduced page for each page in a series of pages associated with a first session in the plurality of sessions, and creating a hash value associated with each reduced page for each page in the series of pages associated with the first session of the plurality of sessions. Responsive to a determination that the hash value of the first session is equivalent to the hash value of the second session, an associated page is identified as an equivalent page and the equivalent pages are merged to create a common sequence without a need to resend requests associated with the session data to a server.

Claims

1. A computer hardware system, comprising:

a hardware processor configured to initiate the following operations;

receiving session data derived from a first session and a second session;

filtering elements from a page in a first series of pages associated with the first session to generate a reduced page of the page;

hashing the reduced page to create a hash value for the reduced page;

comparing the hash value to each hash value associated with a respective reduced page in a second series of pages associated with the second session;

identifying equivalent pages, respectively found within the first and second series of pages, upon hash values of the equivalent pages being equivalent; and

merging the equivalent pages to create a common sequence.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein

the filtering is repeated for each page in the first series of pages, and

the hashing is repeated for each reduced page.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein

the session data includes

first data representative of a set of synchronous operations for a first user, and

second data representative of a set of synchronous operations for a second user different than the first user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein

the filtering removes non-structural elements from the page.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein

the filtering removes elements from the page that are specific to the first session.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein

the reduced page is a reduced document object model.