DYNAMIC PAGE GENERATOR

• US 20080046826A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digi Portal LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nazem, Farzad, Patel, Ashvinkumar
• Granted Patent: US 9,836,445 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• 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: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

An custom page server is provided with user preferences organized into templates stored in compact data structures and the live data used to fill the templates stored local to the page server which is handing user requests for custom pages. One process is executed on the page server for every request. The process is provided a user template for the user making the request, where the user template is either generated from user preferences or retrieved from a cache of recently used user templates. Each user process is provided access to a large region of shared memory which contains all of the live data needed to fill any user template. Typically, the pages served are news pages, giving the user a custom selection of stock quotes, news headlines, sports scores, weather, and the like. With the live data stored in a local, shared memory, any custom page can be built within the page server, eliminating the need to make requests from other servers for portions of the live data. While the shared memory might include RAM (random access memory) and disk storage, in many computer systems, it is faster to store all the live data in RAM.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically generating a page for a user, the method comprising:

receiving a request for at least one customized portion of the page;

receiving a template program specific to the user based on a user configuration, wherein the template program is received from one of at least two locations, the location determined from the frequency of the request for the at least one customized portion of the page;

executing the template program to generate the at least one customized portion of the page; and

providing the customized portion of the page to the user based on the user configuration.

2. A method for dynamically generating a customized page, the method comprising:

receiving a user request for the customized page;

receiving a template program specific to the user based on a user configuration, wherein the template program is received from one of at least two locations, the location determined from the frequency of the user request for the customized page;

executing the template program to generate the customized page;

determining access of real-time information based on the user configuration; and

providing the real-time information for the customized page for the user based on the determined access.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising determining alternative real-time information based on the user configuration, if access to the real-time information is denied.