Facilitating identification of entire web pages when each web page is rendered from multiple portions and interest is expressed based on content of the portions

• US 7,370,036 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2005
• Issued: 05/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Vedula, Venkata Naga Ravikiran
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ho; Binh V
• Application Number:
  US10/905,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20060173815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,194 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/966 Distributed
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

A server system which stores data indicating the identifiers of web pages associated with which each portion has been previously rendered. The data facilitates identification of the entire web pages even if interest is expressed based on content of the portions. For example, a search engine may search the contents of the portions, and then send as search results the identifiers of the web pages which have previously included the portions. As a result, a user may be displayed the entire web pages (as opposed to just the content of the portion), which could be more meaningful.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating identification of entire web pages when each web page is rendered from a corresponding set of portions and interest is expressed based on the content of said set of portions and process search requests, said method comprising receiving a web page definition corresponding to each web page of interest, with said web page definition specifying different portions, and a portion identifier of the source of content for each portion;

receiving a resource locator from a user system on a network requesting a first web page;

identifying a first web page definition corresponding to said resource locator;

determining a first set of portions to be included according to said first web page definition;

sending said first web page including said first set of portions on said network to said user system;

wherein said identifying, said determining and said sending are performed in response to receiving said resource locator;

maintaining data associated with each of said first set of portions in response to said determining, said data indicating that each portion is included in said first web page, receiving a search request after said maintaining;

determining a portion with content matching said search request;

identifying a plurality of resource locators of the web pages with which said portion has been previously rendered by examining said maintained data; and

sending said plurality of resource locators as a response to said search request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said maintaining uses a data structure with a included-in field associated with each of said first set of portion, said included-in field storing said resource locator associated with each of said first set of portions.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said data structure further contains a include field, which specifies whether any sub-portion is included in a corresponding portion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said first web page comprises a dynamic web page.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a web page containing said plurality of resource locators, wherein said sending sends said web page as a response to said search request.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said web page further comprises content matching criteria specified in said search request, and wherein said plurality of resource locators are included as hyperlinks in said web page, wherein each hyperlink when selected opens a corresponding entire web page corresponding to the resource locator.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein said web page definition further specifies portions based on the content of which interest may be expressed and wherein said maintaining maintains data associated with each of said first set of portions for said specified portions.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein said search request is received from a user system and a web page is sent to said user system wherein said web page contains said plurality of resource locators included as a plurality of hyperlinks and wherein each of said plurality of hyperlinks, when selected, opens the corresponding entire web page with which said portion has been previously rendered.

7. A computer readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions for causing a system to facilitate identification of entire web pages when each web page is rendered from a corresponding set of portions and interest is expressed based on the content of said set of portions and to process search requests, wherein execution of said one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors contained in said system causes said one or more processors to perform the actions of receiving a web page definition corresponding to each web page of interest, with said web page definition specifying different portions, and a portion identifier of the source of content for each portion;

receiving a resource locator from a user system on a network requesting a first web page;

identifying a first web page definition corresponding to said resource locator;

determining a first set of portions to be included according to said first web page definition;

sending said first web page including said first set of portions on said network to said user system;

wherein said identifying, said determining and said sending are performed in response to receiving said resource locator;

maintaining data associated with each of said first set of portions in response to said determining, said data indicating that each portion is included in said first web page, receiving a search request after said maintaining;

determining a portion with content matching said search request;

identifying a plurality of resource locators of the web pages with which said portion has been previously rendered by examining said maintained data; and

sending said plurality of resource locators as a response to said search request.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein said maintaining uses a data structure with a included-in field associated with each of said first set of portion, said included-in field storing said resource locator associated with each of said first set of portions.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein said data structure further contains a include field, which specifies whether any sub portion is included in a corresponding portion.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein said first web page comprises a dynamic web page.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, further comprising generating a web page containing said plurality of resource locators, wherein said sending sends said web page as a response to said search request.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein said web page further comprises content matching criteria specified in said search request, and wherein said plurality of resource locators are included as hyperlinks in said web page.

20. The method of claim 7, wherein said web page definition further specifies portions based on the content of which interest may be expressed and wherein said maintaining maintains data associated with each of said first set of portions for said specified portions.

21. The method of claim 7, wherein said search request is received from a user system and a web page is sent to said user system, wherein said web page contains said plurality of resource locators included as a plurality of hyperlinks and wherein each of said plurality of hyperlinks, when selected, opens the corresponding entire web page with which said portion has been previously rendered.

13. A system facilitating identification of entire web pages when each web page is rendered from a corresponding set of portions and interest is expressed based on the content of said set of portions and processing search requests, said system comprising means for receiving a web page definition corresponding to each web page of interest, with said web page definition specifying different portions, and a portion identifier of the source of content for each portion;

means for receiving a resource locator on a network from a user system requesting a first web page;

means for identifying a first web page definition corresponding to said resource locator;

means for determining a first set of portions to be included according to said first web page definition;

means for sending said first web page including said first set of portions to said user system, wherein said identifying, said determining and said sending are performed in response to receiving said resource locator;

means for maintaining data associated with each of said first set of portions in response to said determining, said data indicating that each portion is included in said first web page;

means for receiving a search request;

means for determining a portion with content matching said search request;

means for identifying a plurality of resource locators of the web pages with which said portion has been previously rendered; and

means for sending said plurality of resource locators as a response to said search request.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said means for maintaining uses a data structure with a included-in field associated with each of said first set of portion, said included-in field storing said resource locator associated with each of said first set of portions.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein said data structure further contains a include field, which specifies whether any sub-portion is included in a corresponding portion.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising means for generating a web page containing said plurality of resource locators, wherein said means for sending sends said web page as a response to said search request.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said web page further comprises content matching criteria specified in said search request, and wherein said plurality of resource locators are included as hyperlinks in said web page.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein said web page definition further specifies portions based the content of which interest may be expressed and wherein said means for maintaining maintains data associated with each of said first set of portions for said specified portions.

23. The method of claim 13, wherein said search request is received from a user system and a web page is sent to said user system, wherein said web page contains said plurality of resource locators included as a plurality of hyperlinks and wherein each of said plurality of hyperlinks, when selected, opens the corresponding entire web page with which said portion has been previously rendered.

24. A method of processing search requests received on a network, said method comprising:

receiving a plurality of web page definitions, with each web page definition corresponding to a corresponding one of a plurality of web pages, with said web page definition specifying different portions, and a portion identifier of the source of content for each portion;

receiving a plurality of resource locators on a network, wherein each of said plurality of resource locators is received from a corresponding user system;

identifying a corresponding web page definition from said plurality of web page definitions corresponding to each of said plurality of resource locators;

determining a set of portions to be included according to said corresponding web page definition;

forming a plurality of web pages respectively corresponding to said plurality of resource locators, wherein each web page is formed by including the corresponding set of portions determined according to the corresponding web page definition;

sending each of said plurality of web pages on said network to the corresponding one of said plurality of user systems from which the corresponding resource locator is received;

maintaining data associated with each of said first set of portions in response to said determining, said data indicating that each portion is included in a corresponding web page;

wherein said identifying, said determining, said sending and said maintaining are performed in response to receiving said resource locator of said first web page;

receiving a search request from a second user system, said search request specifying a content of interest;

determining a set of portions with content matching said search request;

examining said data to identify a plurality of resource locators of said web pages with which any of said set of portions has been previously rendered;

sending to said second user system said plurality of resource locators of said web pages.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein a web page is sent to said second user system in response to said search request received from said second user system, wherein said web page contains said plurality of resource locators included as a plurality of hyperlinks and wherein each of said plurality of hyperlinks, when selected, opens the corresponding entire web page with which said portion has been previously rendered.