WEBSITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100077059A1
• Filed: 01/02/2008
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Shen, Shaofeng
• Application Number:
  US12/448,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077059A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

A system and method for website navigation are provided to implement users'"'"' individually defined website navigation. The system and method include a website navigation server and a database, which stores the navigation items of relationships between website pages and character strings respectively according to the specific user. Upon the website page redirection requests with character strings from the user, the website navigation server finds the matched address according to the character strings in the stored navigation items of the current user and then redirects the page to the corresponding address.

Claims

1. A website navigation system, comprising at least a website navigation server and a database, wherein:

the database is adapted to store corresponding relations between page characteristic information and character string information in all navigation items of each user by treating each user as a unit; and

the website navigation server is adapted, upon receiving a page forward request including character string information sent from a client of a user, to find page characteristic information corresponding to the character string information from all navigation items of the user pre-stored in the database and to forward to a corresponding page.

2. The website navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the website navigation server comprises:

an interface unit, which is adapted to establish an interaction between the website navigation server and the client of the user and comprises;

a navigation item addition request receiving sub-unit and a page forward request receiving sub-unit, wherein

the navigation item addition request receiving sub-unit is adapted to receive and send a navigation item addition request comprising page characteristic information and corresponding character string information, the navigation item addition request being sent from the client;

the page forward request receiving sub-unit is adapted to receive and send the page forward request comprising the character string information, the page forward request being sent from the client; and

the processing unit, which is adapted to process the navigation item addition request and the page forward request sent from the interface unit and comprises a navigation item addition request processing sub-unit and a page forward request processing sub-unit, wherein;

the navigation item addition request processing sub-unit is adapted to store a corresponding relation between the page characteristic information and the character string information of the navigation item addition request in website navigation information of the user of the database upon receiving the navigation item addition request;

the page forward request processing sub-unit is adapted to first find page characteristic information corresponding to the character string information from the website navigation information of the user stored in the database and then to forward to a corresponding page upon receiving the page forward request.

3. The website navigation system according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit further comprises:

a first judging sub-unit adapted to judge whether the page corresponding to the page characteristic information carried in the navigation item addition request is a page of a current website, to transmit a positive determining result to the navigation item addition request processing sub-unit and to return failure information if the first judging sub-unit judges that the page is not a page of the current website.

4. The website navigation system according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit further comprises:

a first judging sub-unit adapted to judge whether the page corresponding to the page characteristic information carried in the navigation item addition request is a page of a current website, to transmit a positive determining result to the navigation item addition request processing sub-unit and to return failure information if the first judging sub-unit judges that the page is not a page of the current website.

5. The website navigation system according to claim 4, wherein

the interface unit further comprises:

a receiving sub-unit for processing a navigation information request adapted to receive from the client a request for modifying and/or deleting information of the navigation items;

the processing unit further comprises;

a navigation information request processing sub-unit adapted to modify and/or delete the corresponding information of the navigation items of the user stored in the database according to the received request.

6. The website navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the website navigation server is a separate server connected with the web server or an application module arranged in the web server.

7. The website navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the database is a server connected with the website navigation server, or is integrated in the website navigation server.

8. A website navigation method, comprising:

storing corresponding relations between page characteristic information and character string information of all navigation items of each user by treating each user as a unit; and

upon receiving a page forward request comprising character string information sent from a client of a user, finding page characteristic information corresponding to the character string information from all pre-stored navigation items of the user and forwarding to a corresponding page.

9. The website navigation method according to claim 8, wherein storing corresponding relations between page characteristic information and character string information of all navigation items of each user by treating each user as a unit further comprises:

receiving a navigation item addition request comprising page characteristic information and character string information sent from the client; and

storing a corresponding relation between the page characteristic information and the character string information in website navigation information of the user of a database.

10. The website navigation method according to claim 9, the method further comprises:

comparing the character string information carried in the navigation item addition request with character string information of all pre-stored navigation items of the user;

in the event that all the pre-stored navigation items of the user comprise the same character string information as that in the navigation item addition request, returning failure information to prompt the user to input new character string information;

in the event that all the pre-stored navigation items of the user do not comprise the same character string information as that in the navigation item addition request, storing the corresponding relation between the page characteristic information and the character string information in website navigation information of the user of the database.

11. The website navigation method according to claim 9, the method further comprises:

judging whether the page corresponding to the page characteristic information carried in the navigation item addition request is a page of a current website;

in the event that the first judging sub-unit judges that the page is a page of the current website, storing the corresponding relation between the page characteristic information and the character string information in website navigation information of the user of the database;

in the event that the first judging sub-unit judges that the page is not a page of the current website, returning failure information.

12. The website navigation method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving from the client a request for modifying and/or deleting information of the navigation items, and modifying and/or deleting the pre-stored information of the navigation items of the user correspondingly according to the request.

13. A website navigation system, comprising a web server and a database, the web server comprising an interface unit and a processing unit, wherein:

the interface unit is adapted to establish an interaction between the web server and a client of a user and to send a navigation item addition request comprising page characteristic information and corresponding character string information and a page forward request comprising character string information from the client;

the processing unit is adapted, upon receiving the navigation item addition request, to first determine that the page corresponding to the page characteristic information carried in the navigation item addition request is a page of a current website and then to store a corresponding relation between the page characteristic information and the character string information in website navigation information of the user of the database; and

upon receiving the page forward request, to search for page characteristic information corresponding to the character string information carried in the page forward request in the database and then to forward to a corresponding page;

the database is adapted to store corresponding relations between page characteristic information and character string information of all navigation items of the user in website navigation information of each user by treating each user as a unit.

14. The website navigation system according to claim 13, wherein:

the interface unit comprises;

a navigation item addition request receiving sub-unit adapted to receive and send the navigation item addition request comprising the page characteristic information and corresponding character string information from the client; and

a page forward request receiving sub-unit adapted to receive and send the page forward request comprising the character string information from the client;

the processing unit comprises;

a navigation item addition request processing sub-unit adapted to store the corresponding relation between the page characteristic information and the character string information of the navigation item addition request in the website navigation information of the user of the database on receiving the navigation item addition request; and

a page forward request processing sub-unit adapted to first find page characteristic information corresponding to the character string information from the website navigation information of the user stored in the database and then to forward to a corresponding page upon receiving the page forward request.

15. The website navigation system according to claim 13, wherein the database is a separate server connected with the web server, or is integrated in the web server.

16. A website navigation method, comprising:

storing corresponding relations between page characteristic information and character string information of all navigation items of each user in a database by treating each user as a unit; and

upon receiving a page forward request comprising character string information sent from a client of a user, establishing a connection between a web server and the client, determining the page is a page of a current website, finding page characteristic information corresponding to the character string information carried in the page forward request from all navigation items of the user pre-stored in the database and forwarding to a corresponding page, by the web server.

17. The website navigation method according to claim 16, further comprising:

receiving from the client a request for modifying and/or deleting information of the navigation items, and modifying and/or deleting the pre-stored information of the navigation items of the user correspondingly according to the request.