Apparatus And Method For Simplifying Service Interface To Access Web Service

• US 20080172394A1
• Filed: 06/08/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Chou, Chien-Ming, Jeng, Ya Ping, Lin, Tzu-Ming
• Granted Patent: US 9,489,467 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus, which simplifies the service interface to access web service. The apparatus comprises a service interface and a conversion and interpretation unit. The service interface further includes an upload element, a download element and a command element. With such a conversion and interpretation unit, the data and the command of web pages are converted and interpreted as the contents of the three elements. The contents are converted into web page documents and forwarded to a network platform for further processing associated tasks. The presentation on the service interface may replace the browsers and achieve the function of supporting the participation-typed service. It simplifies the complexity on the network access interface, and can access different services provided by different servers.

Claims

1. An apparatus for simplifying service interface to access web service applicable to a network platform, comprising:

a service interface that includes at least one of an upload element, a download element and a command element, for providing a user to access information contents; and

a conversion and interpretation unit, wherein the conversion and interpretation unit interprets said information contents as one or more datum for said upload element, said download element and said command element;

transmits said one or more datum for displaying on said service interface, compiles said one or more datum into a web page document to be transmitted to said network platform for processing;

compiles returned one or more datum from said network platform, and transmits said compiled returned one or more datum for displaying on said service interface.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information contents include at least one of text, image, multimedia, and different commands generated according to different service contents.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said upload element is chosen from at least one type of text, image, multimedia and any combination of these three types.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more datum of said command element are a plurality of different commands generated according to different service contents.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user interface further includes one or more multimedia peripheral devices.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conversion and interpretation unit is coupled respectively to a network interface and said service interface for performing communication and information content exchange between said network interface and said service interface.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conversion and interpretation unit includes a command and data tag identification and conversion module, a web page tag search module, and a connection execution module.

8. A method for simplifying service interface to access network service, applicable to a network platform, said method comprising:

providing a service interface for a user to access information contents, said service interface having an upload element, a download element and a command element;

according to a defined network service type, interpreting said information contents as first one or more datum for said upload element, said download element and said command element, and displaying said first one or more datum on said service interface;

compiling said first one or more datum into a web page document and transmitting said web page document to said network platform for processing, and returning second one or more datum; and

compiling said second one or more datum into third one or more datum, and transmitting said third one or more datum to said service interface.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said method performs communication and data interpretation, data conversion and data exchange between said network interface and said service interface through a conversion and interpretation unit.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said data exchange through said conversion and interpretation unit is divided into an upload data flow and a download data flow.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein if a request issued by said commend element, said upload dataflow further includes the following steps:

determining the type of said request;

if said request being to switch network service, then changing configuration and switching network service;

if said request being to upload data, then obtaining data for uploading from said upload element, and compiling into a network data according to data type, converting said request into a network command, compiling said network data and said network command into a network packet, and transmitting said network packet through a network interface to said network platform; and

if said request not including data processing, then converting said request into a network command, and transmitting said network command through said network interface to said network platform.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein if a network packet is sent from said network platform, said download dataflow further includes steps:

receiving said network packet, interpreting said network packet as a network command and a data;

processing said data according to said network command; and

displaying said data on said service interface according to said data type.

13. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the operation of said conversion and interpretation unit includes command and data tag identification and interpretation, web page tag search, and connection execution.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said operation of said conversion and interpretation unit further including:

converting a command being issued by a user through said command element, after information content exchanged, into a tag of a web page document according to types of said command and data;

searching for corresponding field and tag in said web page according to information contents to be accessed by said command; and

through said connection execution to said information content and said web page document, forming a web page content, and converting said web page content into a network packet, then transmitting said network packet to said network platform.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said operation of said conversion and interpretation unit further includes steps:

converting a packet being sent from said network platform through a network interface into a web page data and transmitting said web page data to said conversion and interpretation unit;

conducting said web page tag search in said web page data; and

identifying and compiling said found web page tag into the information content for said user, and displaying on said service interface.

16. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein said upload dataflow starts to select and configure network service, connect to a network service and wait for a request or a response.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said configuring network service includes at least uniform resource locator/web address, upload/download element, and tag mapping for web page.