Intelligent Document Filtering

• US 20080301543A1
• Filed: 08/11/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stephane Herman Maes, Thiruvilwamalai V. Raman
• Original Assignee: Stephane Herman Maes, Thiruvilwamalai V. Raman
• Inventors: Maes, Stephane Herman, Raman, Thiruvilwamalai V.
• Granted Patent: US 8,239,756 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

In a network environment that includes a plurality of nodes and that uses a markup language to create documents, a method for filtering the documents is provided. The method includes the step of, upon receiving a request from a requesting node among the plurality of nodes, constructing an input Document Object Model (DOM) based on a document corresponding to the request. The input DOM is stored. Elements of the input DOM that have previously been stored are identified. The input DOM is filtered to obtain a filtered DOM, based on at least one pre-specified rule being applied to the input DOM.

Claims

1. In a network environment that includes a plurality of nodes and that uses a markup language to create documents, a method for filtering the documents, comprising the steps of:

upon receiving a request from a requesting node among the plurality of nodes,

constructing an input Document Object Model (DOM) based on a document corresponding to the request

storing the input DOM;

identifying elements of the input DOM that have previously been stored; and

filtering the input DOM to obtain a filtered DOM, based on at least one pre-specified rule being applied to the input DOM.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sending the filtered DOM to the requesting node.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said filtering step filters out previously received content from the filtered DOM based upon the identified elements.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said filtering step filters out content from the filtered DOM with respect to at least one of the request and at least one previous request.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said method further comprises the step of identifying changed data with respect to at least two interactions between the requesting node and another node from among the plurality of nodes.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said filtering step comprises the step of including only the changed data in the filtered DOM.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one pre-specified rule comprises removing previously received content from the input DOM, when the at least one client device has at least one pre-specified limited resource.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the at least one pre-specified limited resource comprises at least one of a bandwidth, a memory capacity, a processing ability, and a display screen area, less than a pre-defined threshold.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one pre-specified rule comprises removing previously received content from the input DOM, when a user of the at least one client device is one of seeing and hearing impaired.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one pre-specified rule comprises removing content from the input DOM when the at least one client device has at least one pre-specified limited resource.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one pre-specified rule comprises removing content from the input DOM when a user of the at least one client device is one of seeing and hearing impaired.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of inserting a first identifier in the filtered DOM to indicate a filtered status.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of inserting a second identifier in the filtered DOM to indicate a source document from which the filtered DOM originated.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first and the second identifiers are comprised in a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) extension header.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first and the second identifiers are comprised in a transport layer for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the second identifier is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) specifying a location of the source document.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein said filtering step comprises the step of removing presentational markup from the DOM.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein said storing step stores the input DOM in a cache, and said identifying step identifies the elements of the input DOM that have previously been cached.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein said method is implemented by a program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform said method steps.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the markup language is eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the input DOM and filtered DOM are pseudo DOMs.

21. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network environment is a client/server environment, the plurality of nodes includes a client device, and the requesting node is the client device.

22. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network environment is a client/server environment, the plurality of nodes includes at least one client device, at least one server, and at least one intermediary coupled therebetween, and the requesting node is an intermediary.

23. The method according to claim 5, wherein the network environment is a client/server environment, the plurality of nodes includes at least one client device and at least one server, the requesting node is a client device and the other node is the at least one server.

24. The method according to claim 5, wherein the network environment is a client/server environment, the plurality of nodes includes at least one client device, at least one server, and at least one intermediary coupled therebetween, the requesting node is a client device or an intermediary and the other node is a server or another intermediary.

25. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network environment is a client/server environment, the plurality of nodes includes a client device, and said filtering step is performed by the client device.

26. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network environment is a client/server environment, the plurality of nodes includes at least one client device, at least one server, and at least one intermediary coupled therebetween, and said filtering step is performed by the at least one intermediary.