METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACCESSING WEB PAGES

• US 20140108512A1
• Filed: 12/13/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: DU, LIN, GUAN, LIANGLIANG, MA, XUEMIN, YANG, JINGYU
• Application Number:
  US14/106,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108512A1
• 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: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

A method and a device for accessing web pages are disclosed. The method includes: preloading a corresponding uniform resource locator (URL) according to URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in a configuration file, and caching obtained web page information; and judging whether a client device has cached the web page information corresponding to the URL according to the URL carried in a web page access request when a user sends the web page access request through the client device. The client device includes a preloading module, a caching module, and a judging module. The embodiments of the present invention improve the efficiency of accessing web pages.

Claims

1. A method for accessing web pages, comprising:

preloading, by a client device, a corresponding uniform resource locator (URL) according to URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in a configuration file, obtaining web page information corresponding to the URL and caching obtained web page information; and

when a user sends, through the client device, a web page access request carrying a URL, judging whether the client device has cached the web page information corresponding to the URL according to the URL carried in the web page access request.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining the web page information cached in the client device if it is determined that the client device has cached the web page information corresponding to the URL, and obtaining a corresponding web page according to the web page information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the configuration file is obtained by the client device from a server;

the preloading, by the client device, the corresponding URL according to the URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in the configuration file comprises;

sending, by the client device, a configuration file obtaining request to the server to obtain the URL information which needs to be preloaded when the client device runs for a first time, or when a preset update period expires, and preloading, by the client device, the corresponding URL according to the obtained URL information which needs to be preloaded;

or

receiving, by the client device, a configuration file sent by the server, and loading the corresponding URL according to the URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in the configuration file, wherein the configuration file is sent by the server to the client device periodically or upon update of the URL information which needs to be preloaded, and the URL information which needs to be preloaded is configured in the configuration file.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the configuration file is configured in the client device by the user;

the preloading, by the client device, the corresponding URL according to the URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in the configuration file comprises;

obtaining, by the client device, the URL information which needs to be preloaded when the client device runs for a first time, and preloading, by the client device, the corresponding URL.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the server comprises an access server and an original configuration file server, and the original configuration file server stores the URL information which needs to be preloaded;

the method further comprises;

obtaining, by the access server, the URL information which needs to be preloaded from the original configuration file server periodically;

the configuration file is the configuration file sent by the access server to the client device periodically or upon update of the URL information which needs to be preloaded.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

the obtaining the corresponding web page according to the web page information comprises;

judging whether the web page information is updated, and loading the web page information to obtain the corresponding web page if the judging result is negative;

the method further comprises;

obtaining the corresponding web page from the server according to the URL, if it is determined that the client device has not cached the web page information corresponding to the URL carried in the web page access request or that the web page information is updated.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the sending the configuration file obtaining request to the server to obtain the URL information which needs to be preloaded when the preset update period expires comprises;

recording time of previously obtaining the URL information which needs to be preloaded from the server;

checking whether a time difference between current time and time of previously obtaining the URL information reaches a preset update period; and

sending a configuration file obtaining request to the server to obtain the URL information which needs to be preloaded if the difference reaches the preset update period.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

encrypting, by the access server, the obtained URL information which needs to be preloaded according to a pre-negotiated encryption algorithm;

decrypting, by the client device, the obtained URL information which needs to be preloaded according to a pre-negotiated decryption algorithm.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the preloading, by the client device, the corresponding URL, obtaining web page information corresponding to the URL and caching the obtained web page information comprises;

preloading, by the client device, each corresponding URL using a different kernel, obtaining web page information corresponding to the URL and storing the obtained web page information in a cache corresponding to the kernel.

18. A machine-readable medium, which stores an instruction set;

when the instruction set is executed, a machine executes a method specified in claim 1.

10. A client device, comprising:

a preloading module, configured to preload a corresponding uniform resource locator (URL) according to URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in a configuration file;

a caching module, configured to obtain web page information corresponding to the URL and cache web page information obtained by the preloading module preloading the URL; and

a judging module, configured to when a user sends, through the client device, a web page access request carrying a URL, judge whether the caching module has cached the web page information corresponding to the URL according to the URL carried in the web page access request.

11. The client device according to claim 10, further comprising:

an obtaining module, configured to obtain the web page information cached in the caching module when a judging result of the judging module is positive, and obtain a corresponding web page according to the web page information.

12. The client device according to claim 10, wherein:

the configuration file is obtained by the client device from a server;

the preloading module is configured to send a configuration file obtaining request to the server to obtain the URL information which needs to be preloaded when the client device runs for a first time, or when a preset update period expires, and preload the corresponding URL according to the obtained URL information which needs to be preloaded;

or

the preloading module is configured to receive a configuration file sent by the server, and load the corresponding URL according to the URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in the configuration file, wherein the configuration file is sent by the server to the client device periodically or upon update of the URL information which needs to be preloaded, and the URL information which needs to be preloaded is configured in the configuration file.

13. The client device according to claim 10, wherein:

the configuration file is configured in the client device by the user; and

the preloading module is configured to obtain the URL information which needs to be preloaded when the client device runs for the first time, and preload the corresponding URL.

14. The client device according to claim 12, wherein:

the server comprises an access server and an original configuration file server;

the original configuration file server stores the URL information which needs to be preloaded, and the access server obtains the URL information which needs to be preloaded from the original configuration file server periodically; and

the configuration file is the configuration file sent by the access server to the client device periodically or upon update of the URL information which needs to be preloaded.

15. The client device according to claim 11, wherein:

the judging module is further configured to judge whether the web page information obtained by the obtaining module is updated; and

the obtaining module is configured to load the web page information to obtain the corresponding web page, if the judging module determines that the web page information obtained by the obtaining module is not updated; and

obtain the corresponding web page from the server according to the URL, if the judging module determines that the caching module has not cached the web page corresponding to the URL carried in the web page access request, or the judging module determines that the web page information obtained by the obtaining module is updated.

16. The client device according to claim 12, wherein:

the preloading module is configured to record time of previously obtaining the URL information which needs to be preloaded from the server;

check whether a time difference between current time and time of previously obtaining the URL information reaches a preset update period; and

send a configuration file obtaining request to the server to obtain the URL information which needs to be preloaded if the difference reaches the preset update period.

17. The client device according to claim 10, wherein:

the preloading module is configured to preload the corresponding URL using different kernels according to the URL information which needs to be preloaded and is configured in the configuration file; and

the caching module is configured to store the web page information obtained by the preloading module preloading the URL.