SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WEB-BROWSING INFORMATION

• US 20150222481A1
• Filed: 05/16/2014
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adversitement B.V. (Digital Power BV), Insite Innovations And Properties B.V.
• Original Assignee: Insite Innovations And Properties B.V.
• Inventors: Smits, David, Budziak, Guido
• Granted Patent: US 10,230,572 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The information processing platform (100, 200) includes:

• • an auxiliary web server (11, 110);
  • a back-end server (12, 120);
    wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to:
  • receive information relating to a web client (10, 150) query; and
  • forward the information to the back-end server, and
    wherein the back-end server is configured to:
  • process the information according to instructions codified in a configuration file (14, 140); and
  • store the processed information in the data storage.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. Information processing platform comprising:

an auxiliary web server;

a back-end server;

wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to;

receive information relating to a web client query; and

forward the information to the back-end server, and

wherein the back-end server is configured to;

process the information according to instructions codified in a configuration file to obtain processed information.

22. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the back-end server is configured to:

provide the processed information to a recommender system for generating additional data to be sent to the web client.

23. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the back-end server is configured to:

provide the processed information to a data storage interface for partially or completely storing the processed information.

24. Platform according to claim 21, further comprising a proxy server configured to:

forward a request from a web client to a web server;

receive a reply from the web server for the web client;

send information based on the request and/or the reply to the auxiliary web server as information relating to a web client query.

25. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the forwarding of the information to the back-end server by the auxiliary web server is conditional on a check, by the auxiliary web server, of a privacy setting relating to the web client, such as the contents of a cookie.

26. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the back-end server is configured to obtain the configuration file from a web server.

27. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the configuration file specifies which elements of the information relating to the web client query are to be aggregated in the processed information.

28. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the configuration file references data elements identified by HTML element identification.

29. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the configuration file comprises template SQL instructions for instructing a SQL database to store selected data.

30. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to request additional data from a web server.

31. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the configuration file is received from a web server.

32. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to process the information relating to a web client query prior to forwarding the information to the back-end server.

33. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the auxiliary web server receives additional data from the back-end server after forwarding the information to the back-end server.

34. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to send additional HTML data based on data received from a web server or the back-end server to the web client.

35. Platform according to claim 21, wherein the back-end server is configured to receive data from a data storage.

36. Method for processing information by an auxiliary web server, the method comprising:

receiving a request including information relating to a web client query;

checking user consent for processing the information;

sending the information to a back-end server for processing and/or storage.

37. Method for processing information in a back-end server, the method comprising:

receiving information relating to a web client query;

interpreting instructions codified in a configuration file

retrieving information elements from the information according to the instructions; and

processing the retrieved information elements.

38. Method according to claim 37, wherein interpreting the instructions codified in the configuration file comprises

matching a data item comprised in the information relating to a web client query against a value in the configuration file.

39. Method according to claim 38, wherein the data item is an URL.

40. Method according to claim 37, wherein interpreting the instructions codified in the configuration file comprises

extracting selected data from the information relating to a web client query and assigning said selected data to a named variable;

and

formatting selected named variables to obtain formatted output.