CONFIGURABLE AND DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION OF WEB CONTENT

• US 20110099467A1
• Filed: 10/25/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Edgio Incorporated
• Original Assignee: MOJO Merger SUB LLC
• Inventors: Farmer, Andrew Henry, Anand, Ishan, Kapur, Ajay
• Granted Patent: US 11,102,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/236
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

Dynamically transforming web content is described. An HTTP request is received from an Internet client. The web resource identified in the HTTP request is accessed. The content of the web resource is analyzed. A set of transformation instructions are applied on a set of identified portions of the content of the web resource. Each applied transformation instruction includes logic to locate and manipulate at least an identified portion of the content, and at least one of the applied transformation instructions is a client-side script transformation instruction that performs one or more of: modify a client-side script included in the content, remove a client-side script included in the content, and add a client-side script to the content. An HTTP response is rendered that includes the results of the applied transformation instructions and further includes those portions of the content that were not manipulated by a transformation instruction. The response is then transmitted to the Internet client.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically transforming web content, the method comprising:

receiving from an Internet client an HTTP request to be performed on an web resource;

accessing the web resource identified in the HTTP request;

analyzing the content of the web resource;

applying a set of one or more of a plurality of transformation instructions on a set of one or more identified portions of the content of the resource, wherein each applied transformation instruction includes logic to locate and manipulate at least an identified portion of the content, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is a client-side script transformation instruction that performs one or more of modify a client-side script included in the content, remove a client-side script included in the content, and add a client-side script to the content;

rendering an HTTP response that includes the results of the applied transformation instructions and further includes those portions of the content that were not manipulated by any transformation instruction; and

transmitting the response to the Internet client.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the web resource includes the following:

transmitting the HTTP request to an origin server that is hosting the web resource; and

receiving an HTTP response from the origin server that includes the web resource.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the web resource includes locally accessing the web resource.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is a visual formatting transformation instruction that modifies the visual appearance of the resource when rendered by the Internet client.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) transformation instruction that performs one of:

modify a CSS file referenced in the web resource, remove a CSS file referenced in the web resource, and add a CSS file to the web resource.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is an optimization transformation instruction to improve the speed at which the resource is rendered at the Internet client.

7. A computing device to provide a tool for creating and configuring transformation instructions for dynamically transforming web content, the computing device comprising:

a dynamic web content transformation instruction editor to include the following;

a dynamic web content transformation instruction library to list a plurality of predefined dynamic web content transformation instructions that are each selectable by an operator for application on one or more of a domain, subdomain, and path, wherein each dynamic web content transformation instruction includes predefined logic to locate and manipulate an identified portion of web content in a predefined way;

a transformation configuration panel to allow configuration parameters for at least some of those dynamic web content transformation instructions that are selected from the dynamic web content transformation instruction to be configured by the operator; and

an applied transformation instruction list to display an ordered list of transformation instructions that will be applied to the one or more of the domain, subdomain, and path;

8. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the dynamic web content transformation instruction library includes one or more visual formatting transformation instructions that each modify the visual appearance of a web resource when that web resource is rendered by an Internet client.

9. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the dynamic web content transformation instruction library includes one or more CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) transformation instructions that each performs one of:

modify a CSS file referenced in a web resource, remove a CSS file referenced in a web resource, and add a CSS file to a web resource.

10. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the dynamic web content transformation instruction library includes one or more optimization transformation instructions to improve the speed at which a resource is rendered at an Internet client.

11. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the dynamic web content transformation instruction editor further includes a preview pane to allow the operator to preview results of the applied transformation instructions.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a processor, will cause said processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving from an Internet client an HTTP request to be performed on an web resource;

accessing the web resource identified in the HTTP request;

analyzing the content of the web resource;

applying a set of one or more of a plurality of transformation instructions on a set of one or more identified portions of the content of the resource, wherein each applied transformation instruction includes logic to locate and manipulate at least an identified portion of the content, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is a client-side script transformation instruction that performs one or more of modify a client-side script included in the content, remove a client-side script included in the content, and add a client-side script to the content;

rendering an HTTP response that includes the results of the applied transformation instructions and further includes those portions of the content that were not manipulated by any transformation instruction; and

transmitting the response to the Internet client.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein accessing the web resource includes the following:

transmitting the HTTP request to an origin server that is hosting the web resource; and

receiving an HTTP response from the origin server that includes the web resource.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein accessing the web resource includes locally accessing the web resource.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is a visual formatting transformation instruction that modifies the visual appearance of the resource when rendered by the Internet client.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) transformation instruction that performs one of:

modify a CSS file referenced in the web resource, remove a CSS file referenced in the web resource, and add a CSS file to the web resource.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein at least one of the set of transformation instructions is an optimization transformation instruction to improve the speed at which the resource is rendered at the Internet client.