MESSAGE BASED WEB CONTENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS THERETO

• US 20140344295A1
• Filed: 07/30/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ihab Hamadeh, Michael Shungkai Lam
• Original Assignee: Ihab Hamadeh, Michael Shungkai Lam
• Inventors: Lam, Michael Shungkai, Hamadeh, Ihab
• Application Number:
  US14/446,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344295A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/754
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

Message based web content retrieval systems and methods are presented herein. In preferred embodiments, a method comprises receiving a request for digital content from a client device. The content may be retrieved from the content provider. Content contained in a signature pattern may be extracted from the retrieved content of the content provider to provide filtered content. Hyperlinks, images, videos, and other non-text based digital content in the filtered content may be assigned a short code string unique to the non-text based digital content from the content provider requested by the client device.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method to retrieve and send web content over a network, the method comprising using a server to:

(a) receive a request for web content from a client device over a network;

(b) retrieve unfiltered web content from a content provider;

(c) parse the unfiltered web content to create filtered web content; and

(d) transmit the filtered web content to the client device over a network through an electronic message.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the network is a cellular network.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the request for web content from a client device is transmitted as a message selected from a sms text message or a mms multimedia message.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the web content is a web page formatted as html.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the request for web content contains a url.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises assigning hyperlinks found in the retrieved unfiltered web content to a short code string where each short code string is unique to each hyperlink.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises assigning image files found in the retrieved unfiltered web content to a short code string where each short code string is unique to each image file.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises storing a list of short code strings, hyperlinks associated with said short code strings, and client device identification associated with a client device requesting web content in memory on a server.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the client device identification is a phone number.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of parsing the unfiltered web content to create filtered web content further comprises:

receiving a content address;

comparing content address to a signature lookup table;

searching web content html source for a signature pattern associated with the content address stored in the signature lookup table; and

extracting web content based on the location of the signature pattern within the web content html source.

11. A system to retrieve web content over a cellular network, the system comprising:

a. a request Polling engine, wherein the request Polling engine receives sms text message or mms multimedia message requests for web content retrieval from a client device;

b. a web page retrieval engine, wherein the web page retrieval engine retrieves web content from a content source;

c. a signature based scrubbing engine, wherein the signature based scrubbing engine filters web content from content source using a signature pattern;

d. a hyperlink association engine configured to replace hyperlinks found in web content with textual short code strings; and

wherein the signature based scrubbing engine and hyperlink association engine create a mms text message containing filtered web content capable of being received by a client device over a cellular network.