Local storage of script-containing content

• US 20050216825A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Onfolio, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Teague, Charles J.
• Application Number:
  US11/079,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20050216825A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A Web-information manager that is to take locally stored copies of a Web page and the files to which it refers employs two versions of a downloaded Web page if the Web page includes a client-side script. One, “source” version is the one that results from downloading the page with scripting execution disabled. The other, “reference” version is one that results from executing the script. It then locally stores copies of the files referred to by the resultant (potentially script-modified) reference version. And any links in the source version that refer to files thus copied are revised to refer to the local copies. It is this source version, unmodified by the script but updated to refer to local copies of the referred-to files, that is stored for later review.

Claims

1. For storing contents of a web page that includes a client-side script and links to remotely located resources to be presented with the page, a method comprising:

A) storing as a source copy the web page as it exists before execution of the script;

B) storing as a reference copy the web page as it exists after execution of the script;

C) storing local copies of the remotely located resources referred to by links in the web page as it exists after execution; and

D) replacing any link in the source copy to such a remotely located resource with a link to the local copy thereof.