Storing locally a file received from a remote location

• US 7,493,332 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2004
• Issued: 02/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Rahman, Tanvir
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam; Hosain T
• Assistant Examiner(s): LIN, SHEW FEN
• Application Number:
  US10/982,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20050060352A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,566 Days
• Field of Search: 707/5, 707/3, 707/10, 707/102, 709/217, 715/730
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/959 Network
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

Systems and/or methods for storing locally a file received from a remote location corresponding to a file indicator and/or after waiting until an amount of time corresponding to a delay value has lapsed are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving an indication of a destination to be searched;

receiving an indication of a set of search criteria;

searching the destination to identify one or more files that satisfy the search criteria;

generating a reference page including an identifier portion, a viewing portion, and a log portion, wherein the identifier portion includes a plurality of file indicators, each corresponding to each of the one or more identified files, said each of the one or more identified files located at a remote location, wherein the plurality of file indicators are displayed on the reference page as user-selectable links to each of the corresponding one or more identified files, and wherein selection of one of the plurality of file indicators causes;

a corresponding file of the one or more identified files to be displayed in the viewing portion of the reference page; and

a record of the corresponding file to be displayed in the log portion of the reference page, wherein the record includes an indication that the file has been opened and a time that the file was opened;

allowing modifications by a user to one or more of the plurality of file indicators in the reference page; and

for each of the plurality of file indicators, obtaining the corresponding file from the remote location and storing the file locally.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of file indicators comprises a URL.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the one or more identified files comprises a web page.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein different file indicators of the plurality of file indicators correspond to different files of the one or more identified files and are located at different remote locations.

5. One or more computer storage media having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform acts including:

creating an array object;

loading a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs) into the array object;

identifying a delay value;

opening one of the URLs;

storing, in a log, an indication that the opened URL has been opened and a time that the URL was opened;

displaying content associated with the opened URL and the indication that the opened URL has been opened;

waiting until an amount of time corresponding to the delay value has lapsed;

repeating the opening, storing, displaying, and waiting for another URL in the array object; and

continuing the repeating until all of the URLs in the array object have been opened.

6. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 5, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the one or more processors to perform acts including:

initializing a delay timer with the delay value; and

wherein the waiting comprises waiting for the delay timer to expire.

7. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 5, wherein the storing comprises storing, in the log, both the indication that the URL has been opened and a number of URLs that have been opened.

8. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 5, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the one or more processors to perform acts including obtaining the plurality of URLs by:

receiving an indication of a destination to be searched;

receiving an indication of a set of search criteria;

searching the destination to identify one or more files that satisfy the search criteria; and

generating the reference page including an URL for each of the one or more identified files.