Web page providing method and apparatus and program

• US 20030187827A1
• Filed: 02/20/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sumitomo, Takaaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,234,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A web page responsive to a display request from a browser 200 is prepared in a page processing section 109 in a plurality of languages for each display request. When a display request is received from the browser 200, a list preparation section 102 prepares a locale list based on the order specified in an order specification section 103, and a request processing section 108 selects a web page provided from the page processing section 109 based on the locale list.

Claims

1. A web page providing method for providing a web page responsive to a request from a browser, said method comprising the steps of:

preparing a plurality of types of web pages responsive to a display request from the browser for each display request;

selecting a web page of the type based on specification information from among the plurality of types of web pages; and

providing the selected web page for the browser.

2. The web page providing method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

preparing a plurality of types of web pages containing program description for each display request and preparing a plurality of types of resources required by processing of the program;

selecting a web page of the type based on the specification information from among the plurality of types of web pages and executing processing of the program described in the web page;

when a resource is required by processing of the program, selecting a resource of the type based on the specification information from among the plurality of types of resources; and

providing the web page resulting from executing processing of the program for the browser.

3. The web page providing method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the specification information is generated based on at least one of browser information set in the browser, user information acquired through the browser, and preset information.

4. The web page providing method as claimed in claim 3 wherein the specification information includes a plurality of pieces of information each having a priority.

5. The web page providing method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the specification information is information specifying a web page description language.

6. A web page providing apparatus for providing a web page responsive to a request from a browser, said apparatus comprising:

a web page storage unit adapted to store a plurality of types of web pages responsive to a display request from the browser for each display request;

a type specification unit adapted to specify a web page of the type to be provided from among the plurality of types of web pages stored in said web page storage means; and

a web page providing unit adapted to provide the web page of the type specified by said type specification means for the browser.

7. The web page providing apparatus as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

a program processor for processing the program described in the web page; and

a resource storage unit adapted to store a plurality of types of resources required by processing of the program by the program processor,

wherein said web page storage unit stores a plurality of types of web pages containing program description for each display request, and

wherein said type specification unit specifies a resource of the type to be used from among the plurality of types of resources stored in the resource storage unit together with the type of web page to be provided.

8. The web page providing apparatus as claimed in claim 6 wherein said type specification unit specifies the type based on at least one of browser information set in the browser, user information acquired through the browser, and preset information.

9. The web page providing apparatus as claimed in claim 8 wherein said type specification unit adopts at least one of specification based on the browser information, specification based on the user information, and specification based on the preset information as specification of the type in accordance with preset priority.

10. The web page providing apparatus as claimed in claim 6 wherein said type specification unit specifies a web page description language.

11. A web page providing program for causing a computer to provide a web page responsive to a request from a browser, said program for executing the steps of selecting a web page of the type based on specification information from among a plurality of types of web pages prepared for each display request from the browser and providing the selected web page for the browser.

12. The web page providing program as claimed in claim 11 for executing the steps of:

selecting a web page of the type based on the specification information from among the plurality of types of web pages containing program description prepared for each display request and executing processing of the program described in the web page;

selecting a resource required with processing of the program based on the specification information from among the plurality of types of resources prepared; and

providing the web page resulting from executing processing of the program for the browser.

13. The web page providing program as claimed in claim 11 wherein the specification information is generated based on at least one of browser information set in the browser, user information acquired through the browser, and preset information.

14. The web page providing program as claimed in claim 13 wherein the specification information includes a plurality of pieces of information each having a priority.

15. The web page providing program as claimed in claim 11 wherein the specification information is information specifying a web page description language.