Requesting, Responding and Parsing

• US 20120233241A1
• Filed: 03/10/2011
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Dickens, Thomas, Sivakumar, Manoj
• Granted Patent: US 9,524,351 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

This disclosure relates to requesting content items of a web page, via a first request and a second request and responding to the requests. The server computer receives the first request from a client computer and responds to the first request by sending a plurality of default content items to the requesting client computer. The server computer receives the second request from the client computer and responds to the second request by sending a plurality of non-default content items to the requesting client computer. In one or more disclosed embodiments, the client computer stores the plurality of non-default content items in a cache. This disclosure also relates to parsing data in the cache.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of responding to requests for content items of a web page, the method comprising, in a server computer, the steps of:

receiving from a client computer a first request for a first content item of the web page, the first request being a request that is read by the server computer to be a request for a plurality of default content items of the web page;

obtaining the plurality of default content items of the web page corresponding to the first request;

responding to the first request with the plurality of default content items of the web page;

receiving from the client computer a second request for a second content item of the web page, the second request being a request that is read by the server computer to be a request for a plurality of non-default content items of the web page;

obtaining the plurality of non-default content items of the web page from the computer readable storage media of the server computer; and

responding to the second request with the plurality of non-default content items of the web page, the plurality of non-default content items being cacheable in the client computer.

2. The method of claim 1, the plurality of default content items includes substantially all content items that are classified as default content items in the response to the first request, and the plurality of non-default content items includes substantially all content items classified as non-default content items in the response to the second request.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining which content items of the webpage are classified as default content items and which content items are classified as non-default content items.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

interpreting the first request to be a request for a plurality of default content items based on a query string of the first request; and

interpreting the second request to be a request for a plurality of non-default content items based on a query string of the second request.

5. The method of claim 1, in which the web page is divided into fragments and each fragment is a content item, further comprising responding to the second request with a plurality of fragments, that includes substantially all fragments classified as non-default content items.

6. A system, comprising:

at least one hardware-based processor;

a memory;

an I/O Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to receive from a client computer a first request for a first content item of a web page;

an Interpreting Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to analyze the first request for a first content item of the web page to be a request for a plurality of default content items of the web page;

a Retrieving Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to obtain the plurality of default content items of the web page;

the I/O Module further configured to respond to the first request with the plurality of default content items of the web page;

the I/O Module further configured to receive from the client computer a second request for a second content item of the web page;

the Interpreting Module further configured to analyze the second request to be a request for a plurality of non-default content items of the web page;

the Retrieving Module further configured to obtain the plurality of non-default content items of the web page; and

the I/O Module further configured to respond to the second request with the plurality of non-default content items of the web page, the plurality of non-default content items being cacheable in the client computer.

7. The system of claim 6, the plurality of default content items includes substantially all content items classified as default content items in the response to the first request, and the plurality of non-default content items includes substantially all content items classified as non-default content items in the response to the second request.

8. The system of claim 6, further comprising a Determining Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to determine which content items of the web page are classified as default content items and which content items are classified as non-default content items.

9. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

the Interpreting module further configured to interpret the first request to be a request for a plurality of default content items based on a query string of the first request; and

the Interpreting Module further configured to interpret the second request to be a request for a plurality of non-default content items based on a query string of the second request.

10. The system of claim 6, the web page is divided into a plurality of fragments and each fragment is classified as either a default content item or a non-default content item, further comprising the I/O Module further configured to respond to the second request with a plurality of fragments that includes substantially all fragments classified as non-default content items.

11. A system, comprising

at least one hardware-based processor;

a memory;

a Generating Module, stored in the memory and executable on the processor, configured to generate, on a processor of the client computer, a first request for a first content item of the web page;

an I/O Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to send the first request to the server computer for the first content item;

the I/O Module configured to receive from the server computer a plurality of default content items in response to the first request;

the Generating Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, further configured to generate, on a processor of the client computer, a second request for a second content item of the web page;

the I/O Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, further configured to send the second request to the server computer for the second content item;

the I/O Module further configured to receive from the server computer a plurality of non-default content items in response to the second request; and

a Storage Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to store the plurality of the non-default content items, including storing the plurality of elements associated with the non-default content items, in a cache of the client computer.

12. The system of claim 11, the plurality of default content items includes substantially all content items classified as default content items in the response to the first request, and the plurality of non-default content items includes substantially all content items classified as non-default content items in the response to the second request.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a Detecting Module, stored in the memory and executable on the processor, configured to detect a first demand for the entire web page; and

the Generating Module further configured to generate the first request for the first content item to indicate a request for at least one default content item.

14. The system of claim 11, the web page is divided into a plurality of fragments and each fragment is classified as either a default content item or a non-default content item, and the plurality of non-default content items stored in the cache is a plurality of fragments classified as non-default content items, further comprising:

a Detecting Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to detect a second demand for a fragment that is classified as a non-default content item; and

the Generating Module further configured to generate the second request for the second content item to indicate a request for at least one non-default content item.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a Tracing Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to determine an identifier for the demanded fragment:

determining whether an element of the demanded fragment includes an identifier; and

if the elements of the demanded fragment does not include an identifier, tracing to a nearest parent with an identifier.

16. The system of claim 15, the Tracing Module further configured to trace the element of the demanded fragment to a nearest parent with an identifier to determine a child index.

17. The system of claim 15, the plurality of non-default content items is stored in the cache in the form of a text string, further comprising a Parsing Module, stored in the memory and executable on the hardware-based processor, configured to parse at least the text of the elements of the demanded fragment from the cache starting at the determined identifier utilizing a first IsLT state for detecting a less than character, a second IsStartTag state for detecting a start tag and a third MaybeAttr state for detecting an attribute.

18. The system of claim 17, the Parsing Module further configured to create a data structure in the form of a tree with data selected from the group consisting of parsed text, an identifier, a list of children, a start index indicating a start character of the parsed text, an end index indicating an end character of the parsed text, a tag name, combinations thereof, and equivalents thereof.

19. The system of claim 18, the Parsing Module further configured to retrieve a node of the elements based on the identifier of the demanded fragment from the data structure and load the text into the web page.

20. The system of claim 19, the Parsing Module further configured to:

obtain a node of an element of another demanded fragment from the data structure;

perform a reverse trace on said data structure to find the text corresponding with the node of the element of the other demanded fragment;

obtain the text corresponding with the node of the element of the other demanded fragment from a child index; and

load the text into the web page.