Dynamic personal homepage: tracing web block

• US 20060271834A1
• Filed: 05/24/2005
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sun, Bing, Chen, Zheng, Zhang, Benyu, Wang, Jian, Zeng, Hua-Jun, Lin, Chenxi
• Granted Patent: US 7,594,013 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/236
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

The invention provides a method of creating a personal home page containing information of interest assembled from various web sites. The method includes the partitioning of web pages into web blocks. Users may collect various web blocks from different web pages and utilize those web blocks to define the dynamic personal homepage. In addition, the web blocks may be tracked to update content in the personal home page based on corresponding changes in the original web page.

Claims

1. A method of creating a home page, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) identifying information to be located on the home page, the information located on a web page;

(b) selecting the information,

(c) defining a web block based on the selected information;

(d) displaying the defined web block on the home page;

(e) tracking the identified information; and

(f) updating the web block displayed on the home page based on changes to the selected information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of defining a web block further comprises the step of partitioning the web page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of defining a web block further comprises the step of incorporating the selected information into a DOM tree structure.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the web page comprises hypertext mark-up language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of tracking the identified information further comprises determining the minimum difference between a first DOM tree and a second DOM tree.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first DOM tree is associated with the created home page and the second DOM tree is associated with the selected information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of tracking the identified information further comprises:

1) collecting a user'"'"'s feedback; and

2) using the collected user'"'"'s feedback in a learning algorithm.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the collected user'"'"'s feedback is related to content features of the web block.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the content features of the web block are selected from the group consisting of Text Length, Key words, Title, LinNum, and ImageInfo.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the collected user'"'"'s feedback is related to structural features of the web block.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the structural features are selected from the group consisting of root level, RankInSibling, and Offspringnumbers.

12. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:

(a) identifying information to be located on the home page, the information located on a web page;

(b) selecting the information,

(c) defining a web block based on the selected information;

(d) displaying the defined web block on the home page;

(e) tracking the identified information; and

(f) updating the web block displayed on the home page based on changes to the selected information.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the step of defining a web block further comprises the step of partitioning the web page.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the step of defining a web block further comprises the step of incorporating the selected information into a DOM tree structure.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the step of tracking the identified information further comprises determining the minimum difference between a first DOM tree and a second DOM tree.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the step of tracking the identified information further comprises collecting a user'"'"'s feedback.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the collected user'"'"'s feedback is related to content features of the web block.

18. A method of creating a home page, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) identifying information to be located on the home page, the information located on a web page;

(b) defining a web block based on the selected information;

(c) displaying the defined web block on the home page in display panes;

(d) tracking the identified information; and

(e) updating the web block displayed on the home page based on changes to the selected information.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of defining a web block further comprises the step of incorporating the selected information into a DOM tree structure.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of tracking the identified information further comprises:

1) determining the minimum difference between a first DOM tree and a second DOM tree; and

2) using the determined minimum difference as input into a learning algorithm.