Apparatus and method for simplifying service interface to access web service

• US 9,489,467 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2007
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Lin, Tzu-Ming, Chou, Chien-Ming, Jeng, Ya Ping
• Primary Examiner(s): EDWARDS, LINGLAN E
• Application Number:
  US11/760,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172394A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,441 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 707/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A device for accessing web services uses a service interface and a conversion and interpretation unit to implement a method which simplifies the access interface of wave services. The service interface includes an upload element, a download element and a command element. With the conversion and interpretation unit, the data and the command of web pages are converted and interpreted as the contents of the three elements. The contents are converted into web page documents and forwarded to a network platform for further processing associated tasks. The presentation on the service interface may replace the browsers and achieve the function of supporting the participation-typed service. It simplifies the complexity on the network access interface, and can access different services provided by different servers.

Claims

1. A web service accessing device for simplifying service interface to access web service applicable to a network platform, comprising:

a service interface that includes at least one command element and one download element and one upload element for providing a user access to information contents; and

a conversion and interpretation unit including instructions stored on hardware storage, wherein the conversion and interpretation unit;

obtains from the service interface a user-input request including an information content and a command,

interprets the information content for the at least one command element and one download element and one upload element according to preset network service types,

compiles the information content and the command into a web page tag according to interpreted types of the information content and the command,

generates a web page document including the web page tag,

transmits the web page document to said network platform for processing,

conducts a search for the web page tag on a web page generated by the network platform,

compiles returned one or more data from said network platform calculated based on the search, and

transmits said compiled returned one or more data for displaying the simplified version of said information contents on said service interface.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information contents include at least one of text, image, multimedia, and different commands generated according to different service contents.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the upload element to receives a user choice of at least one type of text, image, multimedia and any combination of these three types.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conversion and interpretation unit provides reduced information for display by said service interface.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, further including one or more multimedia peripheral devices.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conversion and interpretation unit is coupled to a network interface and to said service interface for performing communication and information content exchange between said network interface and said service interface.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conversion and interpretation unit includes a command and data tag identification and conversion module, a web page tag search module, and a connection execution module.

8. A method for simplifying service interface to access network service, applicable to a network platform, said method comprising:

providing a service interface on a web accessing device for a user to access information contents, said service interface having at least one command element and one download element and one upload element;

using a conversion and interpretation unit in said web accessing device, according to a defined network service type, to obtain from the service interface a user-input request including an information content and a command;

interpreting the information content for the at least one command element and one download element and one upload element according to preset network service types;

compiling the information content and the command into a web page tag according to interpreted types of the information content and the command;

generating a web page document including the web page tag using said conversion and interpretation unit;

transmitting said web page document to said network platform for processing;

conducting a search for the web page tag on a web page generated by the network platform using said conversion and interpretation unit;

compiling second one or more data returned from said network platform into third one or more data calculated based on the search using said conversion and interpretation unit; and

transmitting said third one or more data for displaying the simplified version of said information contents on said service interface.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said method performs communication and data interpretation, data conversion and data exchange between said network platform and said service interface through said conversion and interpretation unit.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said data exchange through said conversion and interpretation unit is divided into an upload data flow and a download data flow.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said upload dataflow further includes the following steps:

determining the type of a particular request;

if said particular request is to switch network service, then changing configuration and switching network service;

if said particular request is to upload data, then obtaining data for uploading from said upload element, and compiling into a network data according to data type of said network data, converting said request into a network command, compiling said network data and said network command into a network packet, and transmitting said network packet through a network interface to said network platform; and

if said particular request does not include data processing, then converting said request into a network command, and transmitting said network command through said network interface to said network platform.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein if a network packet is sent from said network platform, said download dataflow further includes the steps of:

receiving said network packet, interpreting said network packet as a network command and network data;

processing said network data according to said network command; and

displaying said network data on said service interface according to data type of said network data.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein said upload dataflow executes operations to select and configure network service, connect to a network service and wait for a request or a response.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the operation to configure network service includes at least uniform resource locator or web address, upload or download element, and tag mapping for web page.

15. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the operation of said conversion and interpretation unit includes command and data tag identification and interpretation, web page tag search, and connection execution.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein said operation of said conversion and interpretation unit further includes:

converting a command being issued by a user through said command element, after information content exchanged, into a tag of a web page document according to types of said command and data;

searching for corresponding field and tag in said web page document according to information contents to be accessed by said command; and

through said connection execution to said information content and said web page document, forming a web page content, and converting said web page content into a network packet, then transmitting said network packet to said network platform.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein said operation of said conversion and interpretation unit further includes the steps of:

converting a packet being sent from said network platform through a network interface into a web page data and transmitting said web page data to said conversion and interpretation unit;

conducting said web page tag search in said web page data; and

identifying and compiling a web page tag found from said web page tag search into the information content for said user, and displaying on said service interface.