Real-time return of local search content based on global search key

• US 9,659,321 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2013
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Torres, Esteban Raul, Akireddy, Ravi, Friday, Robert J., Suresh, Thirunavukkarasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): LOHARIKAR, ANAND R
• Application Number:
  US14/054,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20140358732A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,316 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device, a search key from a global search initiated at a mobile device, the network device in communication with the mobile device via a proxy operable to retrieve the search key from a packet transmitted from the mobile device, performing a search at the network device for local content associated with the search key, and transmitting the local content from the network device for display on the mobile device. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

processing at a network device, a global search key from an HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) proxy interposed between a mobile device and the network device and operable to retrieve the global search key from a data packet transmitted from the mobile device to a global network for a global Internet search, the global search key based on a global search input at the mobile device and identified at the HTTP proxy by a sniffing function performed on the data packet, wherein the HTTP proxy transmits the global search key to the network device to obtain local content and to the global network to obtain the global content;

requesting from an authentication, authorization, and accounting server, an identity of a user initiating the global search at the mobile device;

performing analytics at the network device using information received from the authentication, authorization, and accounting server to index keywords to the user identity;

searching at the network device, a context database for the local content using the global search key and the user identity, the context database comprising local content, search keys mapped to the local content, and context information comprising personal preferences of the user; and

processing search results by a rules engine to determine the local content to return to the HTTP proxy for display at the mobile device based on the search results and one or more rules used to determine the local content to display at the mobile device; and

transmitting the local content from the network device to the mobile device via the HTTP proxy to generate the local content for display on the mobile device along with the global content received from the global network at the HTTP proxy in response to the global search initiated at the mobile device to provide the local content to the user initiating the search at the same time the global content from the global Internet search is displayed on the mobile device;

wherein the local content is based at least in part on the personal preferences of the user and wherein the mobile device is associated with a wireless network of an enterprise and the local content is associated with the enterprise.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the local content is displayed along with results from the global search.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the local content is displayed on top of a web browser.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the local content comprises a message indexed to the search key.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the search key comprises one or more keywords.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device is in communication with an enterprise Wi-Fi network.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising transmitting the local content to a device associated with enterprise personnel and receiving a custom response for the user by the enterprise personnel.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the local content comprises new information on top of a web page identified in the global search without modifying the web page.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said new information is inserted into a banner.

10. An apparatus comprising:

an interface for receiving a global search key from an HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) proxy interposed between a mobile device and the apparatus and operable to retrieve the global search key from a data packet transmitted from the mobile device to a global network for a global Internet search, the global search key based on a global search input at the mobile device and identified at the HTTP proxy by a sniffing function performed on the data packet, wherein the HTTP proxy transmits the global search key to the apparatus to obtain local content and to the global network to obtain the global content; and

a processor for requesting from an authentication, authorization, and accounting server for an identity of a user initiating the global search at the mobile device, performing analytics using information received from the authentication, authorization, and accounting server to index keywords to the user identity, searching a context database for the local content using the global search key and the user identity, the context database comprising local content, search keys mapped to the local content, and context information comprising personal preferences of the user, processing the search results according to a set of rules to determine the local content to return to the HTTP proxy for display at the mobile device based on the search results and one or more rules used to determine the local content to display at the mobile device, and transmitting the local content to the mobile device via the HTTP proxy for display on the mobile device along with the global content received from the global network at the HTTP proxy in response to the global search initiated at the mobile device;

wherein the local content is based at least in part on the personal preferences of the user and the mobile device is associated with a wireless network of an enterprise and the local content is associated with the enterprise.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising memory for storing the local content.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the local content comprises a message indexed to the search key.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the processor is further operable to transmit the local content to a device associated with enterprise personnel and receive a custom response to the user by the enterprise personnel.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising a rules engine configurable to identify a set of content to display.

15. Logic encoded on one or more non-transitory computer readable media for execution and when executed operable to:

process at a network device, a global search key from an HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) proxy interposed between a mobile device and the network device and operable to retrieve the global search key from a data packet transmitted from the mobile device to a global network for a global Internet search, the global search key based on a global search input at the mobile device and identified at the HTTP proxy by a sniffing function performed on the data packet, wherein the HTTP proxy transmits the global search key to the network device to obtain local content and to the global network to obtain the global content;

request from an authentication, authorization, and accounting server, an identity of a user initiating the global search at the mobile device;

perform analytics at the network device using information received from the authentication, authorization, and accounting server to index keywords to the user identity;

search in a context database for the local content using the global search key and the user identity, the context database comprising local content, search keys mapped to the local content, and context information comprising personal preferences of the user;

process search results by a rules engine to determine the local content to return to the HTTP proxy for display at the mobile device based on the search results and one or more rules used to determine the local content to display at the mobile device; and

transmit the local content to the mobile device via the HTTP proxy for display on the mobile device along with the global content received from the global network at the HTTP proxy in response to the global search initiated at the mobile device;

wherein the local content is based at least in part on personal preferences of the user.

16. The logic of claim 15 wherein the HTTP proxy comprises the HTTP proxy located at an access point in a data path between the mobile device and the network device.

17. The logic of claim 15 wherein the local content comprises a message indexed to the search key.

18. The logic of claim 15 wherein the local content is displayed along with results from the global search.