Method and apparatus for processing a dynamic webpage

• US 7,386,786 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2003
• Issued: 06/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sincro LLC (Ansira, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The Cobalt Group Incorporated (ADP, Inc.)
• Inventors: Spearman, Robert M., Matveyenko, Wade A., Davis, Lee M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stork; Kyle R
• Application Number:
  US10/350,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20040148565A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,964 Days
• Field of Search: 715/501.1, 715/513, 715/515, 715/517, 715/523, 715/530
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A dynamic webpage processing method, including identifying a static component within a dynamic webpage, the static component comprising computer code defining at least a portion of a target webpage and configurable via first configuration data, rendering the static component as a static markup language equivalent, and returning the target webpage upon request through rendering a dynamic component within the dynamic webpage based on second configuration data is disclosed. Thus, static component(s) can be pre-rendered, leaving only the dynamic component(s) of the dynamic webpage for on-the-fly rendering when a target webpage request is made. This can greatly reduce dynamic webpage processing requirements, particularly in situations where the webpage configuration changes or evolves slowly.

Claims

1. A method for processing a dynamic webpage on a server, comprising:

accessing a dynamic webpage template and associated configuration data;

utilizing the dynamic webpage template and configuration data to present a static component and a dynamic component in a dynamic format such that the static and dynamic components are in a fully dynamic configuration suitable for editing to thereby generate an unpublished dynamic webpage;

publishing the unpublished dynamic webpage by splitting the unpublished dynamic webpage into;

a pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and

a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage;

updating a link inside the published dynamic webpage that points to the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file;

generating a target webpage on the server by;

rendering the published dynamic webpage as a dynamic target webpage, and

combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file; and

transmitting the target webpage from the server to a client.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprises linking the dynamic target webpage to the separate pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the dynamic webpage template in a dynamic template storage area of a data storage system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the configuration data in a configuration database of a data storage system.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file in a file system of a data storage system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprises at least one of an html file, an xml file, and a vml file.

7. An article of manufacture for processing a dynamic webpage on a server, comprising:

a machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon to;

access a dynamic webpage template and associated configuration data;

utilize the dynamic webpage template and configuration data to present a static component and a dynamic component in a dynamic format such that the static and dynamic components are in a fully dynamic configuration suitable for editing to thereby generate an unpublished dynamic webpage;

publish the unpublished dynamic webpage by splitting the unpublished dynamic webpage into;

a pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and

a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage;

update a link inside the published dynamic webpage that points to the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file;

generate a target webpage on the server by;

rendering the published dynamic webpage as a dynamic target webpage, and

combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file; and

transmit the target webpage from the server to a client.

8. The article of manufacture of claim 7 wherein combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprises linking the dynamic target webpage to the separate pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further to store the dynamic webpage template in a dynamic template storage area of a data storage system.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further to store the configuration data in a configuration database of a data storage system.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further to store the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file in a file system of a data storage system.

12. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprises at least one of an html file, an xml file, and a vml file.

13. A website manager for providing a target webpage to a client, comprising:

a web server to receive a request from the client for a dynamic webpage and to return a target webpage to the client in response;

a data storage system in electrical communication with the web server and including a computer readable medium having stored thereon a dynamic webpage template, a static component, a dynamic component, and configuration data; and

an application server in electrical communication with the data storage system to perform the method of;

accessing the data storage system to retrieve the dynamic webpage template and configuration data;

utilizing the dynamic webpage template and configuration data to present a static component and a dynamic component in a dynamic format such that the static and dynamic components are in a fully dynamic configuration suitable for editing to thereby generate an unpublished dynamic webpage;

publishing the unpublished dynamic webpage by splitting the unpublished dynamic webpage into;

a pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and

a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage;

updating a link inside the published dynamic webpage that points to the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file;

generating the target webpage on the server by;

rendering the published dynamic webpage as a dynamic target webpage, and

combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file; and

transmitting the target webpage from the server to the client.

14. The website manager of claim 13, further comprising a publication engine to publish the unpublished dynamic webpage as the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage.

15. The website manager of claim 13, wherein the data storage system includes a dynamic template storage area for storing a plurality of dynamic webpage templates.

16. The website manager of claim 13, wherein the data storage system includes a configuration database for storing configuration data.

17. The website manager of claim 13, wherein the data storage system includes a file system for storing a plurality of pre-rendered static markup language equivalent files.

18. The website manager of claim 17, wherein the file system is a hierarchical file system.

19. The website manager of claim 13, wherein the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprises at least one of an html file, an xml file, and a vml file.

20. The website manager of claim 13, further comprising an editor in electrical communication with the data storage system to edit configuration data.

21. A method for processing a dynamic webpage on a server, comprising:

accessing a dynamic webpage template and associated configuration data;

utilizing the dynamic webpage template and configuration data to dynamically render a static component and a dynamic component so that the dynamically rendered static and dynamic components are in a fully dynamic configuration suitable for editing to thereby generate an unpublished dynamic webpage;

publishing the unpublished dynamic webpage by splitting the unpublished dynamic webpage into;

a pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and

a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage;

updating a link inside the published dynamic webpage that points to the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file;

generating the target webpage on the server by;

rendering the published dynamic webpage as a dynamic target webpage, and

combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file; and

transmitting the target webpage from the server to a client.

22. An article of manufacture for processing a dynamic webpage on a server, comprising:

a machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon to;

access a dynamic webpage template and associated configuration data;

utilize the dynamic webpage template and configuration data to dynamically render a static component and a dynamic component so that the dynamically rendered static and dynamic components are in a fully dynamic configuration suitable for editing to thereby generate an unpublished dynamic webpage;

publish the unpublished dynamic webpage by splitting the unpublished dynamic webpage into;

a pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and

a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage;

update a link inside the published dynamic webpage that points to the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file;

generate a target webpage on the server by;

rendering the published dynamic webpage as a dynamic target webpage, and

combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file; and

transmit the target webpage from the server to a client.

23. A website manager for providing a target webpage to a client, comprising:

a web server to receive a request from the client for a dynamic webpage and to return a target webpage to the client in response;

a data storage system in electrical communication with the web server and including a computer readable medium having stored thereon a dynamic webpage template, a static component, a dynamic component and configuration data; and

an application server in electrical communication with the data storage system to perform the method of;

accessing the data storage system to retrieve the dynamic webpage template and configuration data;

utilizing the dynamic webpage template and configuration data to dynamically render a static component and a dynamic component so that the dynamically rendered static and dynamic components are in a fully dynamic configuration suitable for editing to thereby generate an unpublished dynamic webpage;

publishing the unpublished dynamic webpage by splitting the unpublished dynamic webpage into;

a pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file comprising the static component of the unpublished dynamic webpage, and

a published dynamic webpage, separate from the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, comprising the dynamic component of the unpublished dynamic webpage;

updating a link inside the published dynamic webpage that points to the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file;

generating the target webpage on the server by;

rendering the published dynamic webpage as a dynamic target webpage, and

combining the rendered dynamic target webpage with the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file, wherein combining comprises linking the pre-rendered static markup language equivalent file to the dynamic target webpage; and

transmitting the target webpage from the server to the client.