ENGINE FOR PROCESSING CONTENT RULES ASSOCIATED WITH LOCATIONS IN A PAGE

• US 20160119155A1
• Filed: 11/02/2015
• Published: 04/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Marlow, Keith Anthony
• Granted Patent: US 9,479,343 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/16 Arrangements for providing special services to substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2557 Translation policies or rules
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a network application to process and respond to requests from client devices. A rules engine receives a page, evaluates a set of rules, and performs actions based on the rules. Actions may modify the page or perform other actions affecting the environment. A rules engine may also process rules prior to processing pages, in order to optimize subsequent evaluation of the rules.

Claims

1. A network device to manage a network communication between a client device and a network application, comprising:

a transceiver to send and receive data over the network;

a processor that is operative to perform actions, including;

receiving a page from the network application, the page comprising at least one page element; and

for each page element, evaluating at least one rule corresponding to the page element and selectively modifying the page element based on the evaluation of the at least one rule.

2-22. -22. (canceled)