IDENTIFICATION OF SHARED RESOURCES

• US 20090030923A1
• Filed: 06/17/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation, ServiceNow Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Thomas, James, Whitbourne, Matthew, Klein, Marvin R., Whittick, Emlyn, Chalmers, Blair, Lane, Dale
• Granted Patent: US 8,538,940 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A method for identifying relevant shared resources for a requested browser criterion, the method comprising the steps of: receiving browser monitoring data for a shared resource, the browser monitoring data including an identification of a browser criterion; recording the browser monitoring data to a monitoring data store; parsing the monitoring data in the monitoring data store to identify relevant monitoring data for the requested browser criterion; and identifying shared resources associated with the relevant monitoring data.

Claims

1. A method for identifying relevant shared resources for a requested browser criterion, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving browser monitoring data for a shared resource, the browser monitoring data including an identification of a browser criterion;

recording the browser monitoring data to a monitoring data store;

parsing the monitoring data in the monitoring data store to identify relevant monitoring data for the requested browser criterion; and

identifying shared resources associated with the relevant monitoring data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the relevant monitoring data is ranked using a relevance policy.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the shared resources are websites.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the shared resource browsers are web browsers.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the browser monitoring data includes one or more of:

data relating to interaction between a user and a web browser;

data relating to interaction between a user and a website; and

data relating to a reuse of resources at a website.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the data relating to interaction between a user and a web browser includes one or more of:

data relating to the selection of options in the web browser by the user;

data relating to the specification of an address of a website by the user;

data relating to the storage of a bookmark to an address of a website by the user;

data relating to the retrieval of a bookmark to an address of a website by the user; and

data relating to the selection of a hypertext link in a website by a user.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the data relating to interaction between a user and a website includes one or more of:

data relating to an elapsed period of time a user spends browsing the website;

data relating to data transmitted to a web server for the website; and

data relating to the selection of a hypertext link in a website by a user.

8. The method of claim 5 wherein the data relating to a reuse of resources at a website includes one or more of:

data relating to a clipboard operation on website content; and

data relating to downloading content from the website.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the requested browser criterion is a topic.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the requested browser criterion is an activity.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of compressing the browser monitoring data in the monitoring data store.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the monitoring data is compressed by removal of browser monitoring data based on a compression policy.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the compression policy includes one or more criteria for identifying browser monitoring data suitable for removal from the data store.

14. Apparatus for identifying relevant shared resources for a requested browser criterion, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving browser monitoring data for a shared resource, the browser monitoring data including an identification of a browser criterion;

means for recording the browser monitoring data to a monitoring data store;

means for parsing the monitoring data in the monitoring data store to identify relevant monitoring data for the requested browser criterion; and

means for identifying shared resources associated with the relevant monitoring data.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the relevant monitoring data is ranked using a relevance policy.

16. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the shared resources are websites.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the shared resource browsers are web browsers.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the browser monitoring data includes one or more of:

data relating to interaction between a user and a web browser;

data relating to interaction between a user and a website; and

data relating to a reuse of resources at a website.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the data relating to interaction between a user and a web browser includes one or more of:

data relating to the selection of options in the web browser by the user;

data relating to the specification of an address of a website by the user;

data relating to the storage of a bookmark to an address of a website by the user;

data relating to the retrieval of a bookmark to an address of a website by the user; and

data relating to the selection of a hypertext link in a website by a user.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the data relating to interaction between a user and a website includes one or more of:

data relating to an elapsed period of time a user spends browsing the website;

data relating to data transmitted to a web server for the website; and

data relating to the selection of a hypertext link in a website by a user.

21. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the data relating to a reuse of resources at a website includes one or more of:

data relating to a clipboard operation on website content; and

data relating to downloading content from the website.

22. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the requested browser criterion is a topic.

23. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the requested browser criterion is an activity.

24. The apparatus of claim 14 further comprising means for compressing the browser monitoring data in the monitoring data store.

25. The apparatus of claim 24 wherein the monitoring data is compressed by removal of browser monitoring data based on a compression policy.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 wherein the compression policy includes one or more criteria for identifying browser monitoring data suitable for removal from the data store.

27. An apparatus comprising:

a central processing unit;

a memory subsystem;

an input/output subsystem; and

a bus subsystem interconnecting the central processing unit, the memory subsystem, the input/output subsystem;

comprising;

means for receiving browser monitoring data for a shared resource the browser monitoring data including an identification of a browser criterion;

means for recording the browser monitoring data to a monitoring data store;

means for parsing the monitoring data in the monitoring data store to identify relevant monitoring data for the requested browser criterion; and

means for identifying shared resources associated with the relevant monitoring data.

28. A computer program element comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer system and executed thereon, cause the computer to perform the steps of:

receiving browser monitoring data for a shared resource the browser monitoring data including an identification of a browser criterion;

recording the browser monitoring data to a monitoring data store;

parsing the monitoring data in the monitoring data store to identify relevant monitoring data for the requested browser criterion; and

identifying shared resources associated with the relevant monitoring data.