VERIFICATION SERVICE FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT UPDATE

• US 20100257413A1
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Brunet, Thomas A., Wilson, Allen K., Yan, Shunguo
• Application Number:
  US12/417,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20100257413A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A client-side application receives an initial page from an application server that includes initial content and provides the initial page to a user. Next, the client-side application receives user input corresponding to the initial page and updates a portion of the initial content, which results in updated content and unmodified initial content. Subsequently, the client-side application formats the updated content and adds markup tags that describe the updated content. The client-side application then sends the updated content and the markup tags to a verification server. As a result, the client-side application receives a verification report from the verification server that corresponds to the updated content and the markup tags. The client-side application determines whether the verification report includes a verification error and, if so, the client-side application provides the verification error to the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a client-side application, an initial page from an application server, the initial page including initial content;

providing the initial page to a user;

receiving user input from the user, the user input corresponding to the initial page;

in response to receiving the user input, updating a portion of the initial content, the updated portion of the initial content becoming updated content and the non-updated portion of the initial content becoming unmodified initial content;

formatting the updated content by adding markup tags that describe the updated content;

sending, from the client-side application, the updated content and the markup tags to a verification server;

receiving, at the client-side application, a verification report from the verification server, the verification report corresponding to the updated content and the markup tags;

determining whether the verification report includes a verification error; and

in response to determining that the verification report includes the verification error, providing the verification error to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the verification error indicates that the markup tags are not valid.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

in response to receiving the user input, sending a partial page request to the application server;

receiving a partial page from the application server that corresponds to the partial page request;

identifying the partial page as the updated content;

sending, from the client, the partial page to the verification server;

receiving a subsequent verification report from the verification server that corresponds to the partial page; and

in response to determining that the subsequent verification report does not include a subsequent verification error, sending the partial page to the application server.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the client-side application is a browser, the method further comprising:

extracting the updated content from the browser using a verification component located at the client; and

sending the extracted updated content to the verification server using the verification component.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

wherein the client-side application receives the verification component, which is included in the initial page, from the application server; and

wherein the verification component sends verification rules to the verification server that the verification server utilizes to verify the updated content.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the client-side application only sends the updated content, without the unmodified initial content, to the verification server.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein an address location corresponding to the initial page remains unchanged after the updating of the portion of the initial content.

8. A computer program product stored in a computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:

receiving, at a client-side application, an initial page from an application server, the initial page including initial content;

providing the initial page to a user;

receiving user input from the user, the user input corresponding to the initial page;

in response to receiving the user input, updating a portion of the initial content, the updated portion of the initial content becoming updated content and the non-updated portion of the initial content becoming unmodified initial content;

formatting the updated content by adding markup tags that describe the updated content;

sending, from the client-side application, the updated content and the markup tags to a verification server;

receiving, at the client-side application, a verification report from the verification server, the verification report corresponding to the updated content and the markup tags;

determining whether the verification report includes a verification error; and

in response to determining that the verification report includes the verification error, providing the verification error to the user.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the verification error indicates that the markup tags are not valid.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the information handling system further performs actions that include:

in response to receiving the user input, sending a partial page request to the application server;

receiving a partial page from the application server that corresponds to the partial page request;

identifying the partial page as the updated content;

sending, from the client, the partial page to the verification server;

receiving a subsequent verification report from the verification server that corresponds to the partial page; and

in response to determining that the subsequent verification report does not include a subsequent verification error, sending the partial page to the application server.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the client-side application is a browser, the information handling system further performing actions that include:

extracting the updated content from the browser using a verification component located at the client; and

sending the extracted updated content to the verification server using the verification component.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the information handling system further performs actions that include:

wherein the client-side application receives the verification component, which is included in the initial page, from the application server; and

wherein the verification component sends verification rules to the verification server that the verification server utilizes to verify the updated content.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the client-side application only sends the updated content, without the unmodified initial content, to the verification server.

14. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein an address location corresponding to the initial page remains unchanged after the updating of the portion of the initial content.

15. An information handling system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory accessible by at least one of the processors;

a nonvolatile storage area accessible by at least one of the processors;

a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of;

receiving, at a client-side application, an initial page from an application server, the initial page including initial content;

providing the initial page to a user;

receiving user input from the user, the user input corresponding to the initial page;

in response to receiving the user input, updating a portion of the initial content, the updated portion of the initial content becoming updated content and the non-updated portion of the initial content becoming unmodified initial content;

formatting the updated content by adding markup tags that describe the updated content;

sending, from the client-side application, the updated content and the markup tags to a verification server;

receiving, at the client-side application, a verification report from the verification server, the verification report corresponding to the updated content and the markup tags;

determining whether the verification report includes a verification error; and

in response to determining that the verification report includes the verification error, providing the verification error to the user.

16. The information handling system of claim 15 wherein the verification error indicates that the markup tags are not valid.

17. The information handling system of claim 15 wherein the information handling system further performs actions that include:

in response to receiving the user input, sending a partial page request to the application server;

receiving a partial page from the application server that corresponds to the partial page request;

identifying the partial page as the updated content;

sending, from the client, the partial page to the verification server;

receiving a subsequent verification report from the verification server that corresponds to the partial page; and

in response to determining that the subsequent verification report does not include a subsequent verification error, sending the partial page to the application server.

18. The information handling system of claim 15 wherein the client-side application is a browser, the information handling system further performing actions that include:

extracting the updated content from the browser using a verification component located at the client; and

sending the extracted updated content to the verification server using the verification component.

19. The information handling system of claim 18 wherein the information handling system further performs actions that include:

wherein the client-side application receives the verification component, which is included in the initial page, from the application server; and

wherein the verification component sends verification rules to the verification server that the verification server utilizes to verify the updated content.

20. The information handling system of claim 15 wherein the client-side application only sends the updated content, without the unmodified initial content, to the verification server.