USER-SPECIFIC CUSTOMIZATION OF WEB PAGES

• US 20120151313A1
• Filed: 12/14/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsirkin, Michael S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,846,361 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A first server hosting a referring web page receives a client request for the referring web page, and provides the referring web page and referring page data associated with one or more destination web pages referenced in the referring web page to a client, where the referring page data being provided to the client for forwarding to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a first server, a client request for a referring web page; and

providing, to a client by the first server, the referring web page and referring page data associated with one or more destination web pages referenced in the referring web page, the referring page data being provided to the client for forwarding to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the referring page data comprises at least one of:

a list of keywords, text that describes a topic of a destination web page relevant to the referring web page, and at least part of the contents of the referring web page.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the referring web page and the referring page data comprises:

upon receiving the client request for the referring web page, identifying references to the destination web pages in the referring web page; and

creating a response for the client, the response including the referring web page and the referring page data for the destination web pages.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the referring web page and the referring page data comprises:

after sending the referring web page to the client, identifying a user request to access a destination web page while the referring web page is presented to a user; and

sending the referring page data for the requested destination web page to the client.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the referring web page and the referring page data comprises:

after sending the referring web page to the client, receiving a client request for the referring page data associated with the destination web pages; and

sending the referring page data for the destination web pages to the client.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining data to be forwarded to the second web server based on at least one of a referring data property, the destination web page, and a policy specified by a user.

7. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request to access a destination web page hosted by the server from a client;

receiving data associated with a referring web page from the client;

modifying the destination web page based on the received data associated with the referring web page; and

providing a modified destination web page to the client.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein modifying the destination web page comprises at least one of:

highlighting keywords in the destination web page, rearranging the contents of the destination web page, and filtering the contents of the destination web page.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising:

creating a list of keywords based on the received data.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising:

generating a hyperlink to the modified destination web page; and

providing the hyperlink to the client.

11. A computer-implemented method comprising:

sending, by a client computer system executing a browser application, a request for a referring web page;

receiving, from a first server hosting the referring web page, the referring web page and referring page data associated with one or more destination web pages referenced in the referring web page;

determining what data is to be forwarded to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages based on at least one of a referring data property, the destination web page and a policy specified by a user;

sending the determined data and the user request to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages; and

receiving the destination web page from the second server, the destination web page having been modified by the second server based on the received data associated with the referring web page.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 wherein the referring web page is received from the first server together with the referring page data.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 wherein receiving the referring web page and the referring page data comprises:

presenting the referring web page to the user;

identifying a user request to access one of the destination web pages;

sending a request for the referring page data to the first server; and

receiving the referring page data from the first server.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 wherein receiving the referring web page and the referring page data comprises:

after receiving the referring web page from the first server, sending a request for the referring page data to the first server; and

receiving the referring page data from the first server.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining whether to forward the received data to the second server based on whether a user has selected an option to allow the received data to be forwarded.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

presenting the received data to the user along with the destination web page.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising

in response to a user request to create a bookmark for the destination web page, storing the received data associated with the referring web page along with a hyperlink to the destination web page.

18. A system for a first server, the system comprising:

a memory;

a processor, coupled to the memory; and

a data provider, executed from the memory by the processor, to;

receive a client request for a referring web page; and

provide the referring web page and referring page data associated with one or more destination web pages referenced in the referring web page, the referring page data being provided to the client for forwarding to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the referring page data comprises at least one of:

a list of keywords, text that describes a topic of a destination web page relevant to the referring web page, and at least part of the contents of the referring web page.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the data provider is to provide the referring web page and the referring page data by:

upon receiving the client request for the referring web page, identifying references to the destination web pages in the referring web page; and

creating a response for the client, the response including the referring web page and the referring page data for the destination web pages.

21. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request to access a destination web page hosted by the server from a client;

receiving data associated with a referring web page from the client;

modifying the destination web page based on the received data associated with the referring web page; and

providing a modified destination web page to the client.

22. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein modifying the destination web page comprises at least one of:

highlighting keywords in the destination web page, rearranging the contents of the destination web page, and filtering the contents of the destination web page.

23. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

sending, by a client computer system executing a browser application, a request for a referring web page;

receiving, from a first server hosting the referring web page, the referring web page and referring page data associated with one or more destination web pages referenced in the referring web page;

determining what data is to be forwarded to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages based on at least one of a referring data property, the destination web page and a policy specified by a user;

sending the determined data and the user request to a second server that hosts one of the destination web pages; and

receiving the destination web page from the second server, the destination web page having been modified by the second server based on the received data associated with the referring web page.

24. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein receiving the referring web page and the referring page data comprises:

presenting the referring web page to the user;

identifying a user request to access one of the destination web pages;

sending a request for the referring page data to the first server; and

receiving the referring page data from the first server.