Snapshot Refreshment for Search Results Page Preview

• US 20130283137A1
• Filed: 04/23/2012
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wu, Hui, Chen, Zhongqiang, Zhu, Shenhong, Han, Xiaobing, Su, Hang
• Granted Patent: US 9,529,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and programming for refreshing web page URL snapshots are disclosed. A plurality of URLs is received. URLs from the plurality of URLs are selected to schedule for refreshment of snapshots corresponding to web pages associated with the URLs. A plurality of snapshots is generated, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment. The plurality of snapshots is provided for display, wherein each snapshot is a viewable and actionable link to the corresponding URL the snapshot is associated with.

Claims

1. A method implemented on at least one computing device, each computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for refreshing web page URL snapshots, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of URLs;

selecting URLs from the plurality of URLs to schedule for refreshment;

generating a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment; and

providing the plurality of snapshots for display, wherein each snapshot is a viewable and actionable link to the corresponding URL the snapshot is associated with.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a plurality of URLs comprises:

receiving a first set of URLs, which have associated snapshots; and

receiving a second set of URLs, which have no associated snapshots.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting URLs from the plurality of URLs to schedule for refreshment comprises:

analyzing attributes of each of the plurality of URLs;

assigning an importance score to each of the plurality of URLs based on analyzing the attributes of each of the plurality of URLs; and

selecting a set of URLs for refreshment from the plurality of URLs for refreshment based on the importance scores.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing all URLs to the URL Repository;

storing high quality snapshots and their associated URLs to a snapshot repository; and

storing URLs with no snapshots or with low quality snapshots to a failed URL repository.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

deleting snapshots and their associated URLs from the snapshot repository.

6. The method of claim 1, generating a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected plurality of URLs scheduled for refreshment, comprises:

for each of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment;

determining if the URL is associated with a failure condition;

generating a snapshot of the URL if the URL is not associated with a failure condition;

determining whether the snapshot is a high quality snapshot; and

storing the snapshot in a snapshot repository in response to determining that the snapshot is a high quality snapshot.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

storing the URL in a failed URL repository if the URL is associated with a failure condition; and

storing the URL in the failed URL repository in response to determining that its snapshot is low quality.

8. A machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium having information recorded for refreshing web page URLs, wherein the information, when read by the machine, causes the machine to perform the steps comprising:

receiving a plurality of URLs;

selecting URLs from the plurality of URLs to schedule for refreshment;

generating a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment; and

providing the plurality of snapshots for display, wherein each snapshot is a viewable and actionable link to the corresponding URL the snapshot is associated with.

9. The machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium of claim 8, wherein receiving a plurality of URLs comprises:

receiving a first set of URLs, which have associated snapshots; and

receiving a second set of URLs, which have no associated snapshots.

10. The machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium of claim 8, wherein selecting URLs from the plurality of URLs to schedule for refreshment comprises:

analyzing attributes of each of the plurality of URLs;

assigning an importance score to each of the plurality of URLs based on analyzing the attributes of each of the plurality of URLs; and

selecting a set of URLs for refreshment from the plurality of URLs for refreshment based on the importance scores.

11. The machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium of claim 10, wherein the information, when read by the machine, further causes the machine to perform the steps comprising:

storing all URLs to URL Repository;

storing high quality snapshots and their associated URLs to a snapshot repository; and

storing URLs with no snapshots or with low quality snapshots to a failed URL repository.

12. The machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium of claim 11, wherein the information, when read by the machine, further causes the machine to perform the step comprising:

deleting snapshots and their associated URLs from the snapshot repository.

13. The machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium of claim 8, wherein generating a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected plurality of URLs scheduled for refreshment, comprises:

for each of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment;

determining if the URL is associated with a failure condition;

generating a snapshot of the URL if the URL is not associated with a failure condition;

determining whether the snapshot is a high quality snapshot; and

storing the snapshot in a snapshot repository in response to determining that the snapshot is a high quality snapshot.

14. The machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium of claim 13, wherein the information, when read by the machine, further causes the machine to perform the steps comprising:

storing the URL in a failed URL repository if the URL is associated with a failure condition; and

storing the URL in the failed URL repository in response to determining that the snapshot is not a high quality snapshot.

15. A system for refreshing web page URLs, comprising:

a refreshment scheduler for selecting URLs from a plurality of URLs to schedule for refreshment;

a snapshot generator for generating a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment; and

a snapshot repository for storing and providing the plurality of snapshots for display, wherein each snapshot is a viewable and actionable link to the corresponding URL the snapshot is associated with.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the refreshment scheduler is configured for receiving a first set of URLs that have associated snapshots;

and receiving a second set of URLs that do not have associated snapshots.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the refreshment scheduler is further configured for analyzing attributes of each of the plurality of URLs;

assigning an importance score to each of the plurality of URLs based on analyzing the attributes of each of the plurality of URLs; and

selecting a set of URLs for refreshment from the plurality of URLs for refreshment based on the importance scores.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a URL repository for storing URLs;

a snapshot repository for storing URLs and their associated high quality snapshots; and

a failed URL repository for storing URLs with no snapshots or with low quality snapshots.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the refreshment scheduler is further configured for deleting snapshots and their associated URLs from the snapshot repository.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the snapshot generator is configured to:

for each of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment;

determine if the URL is associated with a failure condition;

generate a snapshot of the URL if the URL is not associated with a failure condition;

determine whether the snapshot is a high quality snapshot; and

store the snapshot in a snapshot repository in response to determining that the snapshot is a high quality snapshot.

21. A method implemented on at least one computing device, each computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for providing refreshed web page URL snapshots, the method comprising

receiving a search request;

identifying a list of search results corresponding to the search request;

retrieving a plurality of snapshots, wherein each snapshot is associated with a corresponding search result, and wherein the snapshots are high quality snapshots that are periodically refreshed; and

providing the plurality of snapshots such that the plurality of snapshots are viewable and actionable with a corresponding search result, wherein each search result represents a URL.