Category name service able to override the category name based on requestor privilege information

• US 7,213,069 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2001
• Issued: 05/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, Todd J., Larason, John T., Packer, Alan C., Lamkins, David B, Caird, Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): Kang; Paul H.
• Application Number:
  US09/796,811
• Publication Number:
  US 20020120754A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,253 Days
• Field of Search: 709/218, 709/229, 709/217, 709/202, 709/203, 715/500, 707/10, 707/101, 707/102
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/365 Application layer names, e.g. buddy names, unstructured names chosen by a user or home appliance name
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A category name service is provided to conditionally return a category name for a data object upon request. The category name is returned is the category name is known or if the requester has subscribed for dynamic determination service, and the dynamic determination is successful. In selected embodiments, the category name service includes the dynamic determination service. In selected embodiments, the category name service also provides for the requestor to request review of a returned category name and/or request override of a returned category name. In selected embodiments, the category name service also includes the dynamic determination, review, and/or override service.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request to provide a category name for a data object;

determining if the category name for the data object is known;

determining if the category name is to be dynamically determined if the category name is not known;

requesting the unknown category name to be dynamically determined if it is determined that the unknown category name is to be dynamically determined;

returning the category name to a requestor of the request if the category name is known or if unknown, dynamically determined;

receiving a second request to override the category name returned for the data object;

determining if a requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override, said determining comprising retrieving privilege information about the requestor; and

overriding the category name of the data object if the requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving a request to provide a category name for a data object comprises receiving a uniform resource locator for the data object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining if the category name for the data object is known comprises attempting to retrieve the category name from a datastore.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said attempting to retrieve comprises attempting to retrieve the category name from a local datastore.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining if the category name is to be dynamically determined if the category name is not known comprises determining if the requestor of the request has subscribed to a dynamic evaluation service.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said determining if the requestor of the request has subscribed to a dynamic evaluation service comprises retrieving subscribed service information about the requestor.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said requesting the unknown category name to be dynamically determined if it is determined that the unknown category name is to be dynamically determined comprises requesting a dynamic evaluation service to determine the category name of the data object.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said data object is a web page of a web site, and said dynamic evaluation service further automatically determines category names for all unknown web pages of the web site.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said method further comprises receiving a second request to review the category name returned for the data object, and requesting review of the returned category name.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said requesting review of the returned category name comprises re-assessing the association of the data object with the returned category name.

11. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a first request to provide a category name for a data object;

returning the category name to a requestor of the first request;

receiving a second request to override the category name returned for the data object;

determining if a requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override, said determining comprising retrieving privilege information about the requestor; and

requesting to have the category name of the data object overridden if the requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said requesting to have the category name of the data object overridden comprises overriding the category name of the data object.

13. An apparatus comprising:

a storage medium having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions designed to implement a plurality of functions of a category name service for providing a category name to a data object, including first one or more functions

to receive a request to provide a category name for a data object,

to determine if the category name for the data object is known,

to determine if the category name is to be dynamically determined if the category name is not known,

to request the unknown category name to be dynamically determined if it is determined that the unknown category name is to be dynamically determined,

to return the category name to a requestor of the request if the category name is known or if unknown, dynamically determined,

to receive a second request to override the category name returned for the data object

to determine if a requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override by retrieving privilege information about the requestor,

to override the category name of the data object if the requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override; and

one or more processors coupled to the storage medium to execute the programming instructions.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first one or more functions are designed to receive a uniform resource locator for the data object.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first one or more functions are designed to determine if the category name for the data object is known by attempting to retrieve the category name from a datastore.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the first one or more functions are designed to perform said attempting to retrieve by attempting to retrieve the category name from a local datastore, and the storage medium further having stored therein said local datastore.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first one or more functions are designed to determine if the category name is to be dynamically determined if the category name is not known by determining if the requestor of the request has subscribed to a dynamic evaluation service.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said first one or more functions are designed to determine if the requestor of the request has subscribed to a dynamic evaluation service by retrieving subscribed service information about the requestor.

19. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the plurality of functions further includes second one or more functions to dynamically determine a category name for a data object, and the first one or more functions are designed to request the second one or more functions to determine the category name of the data object.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein said data object is a web page of a web site, and said second one or more functions further automatically determines category names for all unknown web pages of the web site.

21. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first one or more functions are also designed to receive a second request to review the category name returned for the data object and to request review of the returned category name.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the plurality of functions further includes second one or more functions to re-assess the association of a data object with a category name, and said first one or more functions are designed to request the second one or more functions to re-assess the association of the data object with the returned category name.

23. An apparatus comprising:

a storage medium having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions designed to implement a plurality of functions of a category name service for providing a category name to a data object, including first one or more functions

to receive a first request to provide a category name for a data object,

to return the category name to a requestor of the first request,

to receive a second request to override the category name returned for the data object,

to determine if a requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override by retrieving privilege information about the requestor, and

to request to have the category name of the data object overridden if the requestor of the requested override is authorized to request the override; and

one or more processors coupled to the storage medium to execute the programming instructions.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein said requesting to have the category name of the data object overridden comprises overriding the category name of the data object.