Smart, search-enabled web error pages

• US 8,825,740 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2008
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Catorcini, Alessandro P., Canel, Fabrice, Michaels, Amy J., Hahn, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOROBOV, VITALI A
• Application Number:
  US12/257,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20100106571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,140 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/206, 709/217, 709/239, 707/728
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

Embodiments of our technology provide a method, system, and media for presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present information that is unavailable by way of a website. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a request to present a desired web page, determining that the desired web page is unavailable for presentation, determining search criteria associated with the request, dynamically generating a second web page that includes search results that were obtained based on the search criteria, and presenting the second web page on a display device.

Claims

1. A method of presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present unpresentable information associated with a website, the method comprising:

receiving, from a computing device, a request to present a desired web page;

determining that the desired web page is unavailable for presentation;

accessing a cache index to identify a cached version of the desired web page associated with the request;

analyzing the cached version of the desired web page to determine information associated with the cached version of the desired web page including content associated with the cached version of the desired web page;

generating a set of search criteria based solely on the information determined to be associated with the cached version of the desired web page;

using the set of search criteria generated solely from the information determined to be associated with the cached version of the desired web page, querying the computing device and an advertisement provider to identify a set of search results that meet the search criteria;

dynamically generating a second web page other than the cached version of the desired web page that includes the search results that were identified by querying the computing device and the advertisement provider based on the set of search criteria; and

presenting the second web page on a display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is received by way of a hyperlink.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the web page is unavailable for presentation includes determining that the hyperlink does not point to the desired web page.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the web page is unavailable for presentation includes determining that the web page exists but is denoted to not be presented to a requester.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein generating the set of search criteria further comprises analyzing one or more of:

at least a portion of the hyperlink;

a requesting webpage from which the request was received;

metadata associated with said requesting webpage; and

a requesting device that initiated the request.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein analyzing the at least a portion of the hyperlink includes determining one or more keywords from the at least a portion of the hyperlink.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the cached version of the desired web page to determine information further includes

determining a file type associated with the cached version of the desired web page.