Method and apparatus of short uniform resource locator lookup and feedback

• US 9,680,911 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Yuan, Changwen
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollack, Melvin H
• Application Number:
  US15/101,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20160308936A1
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 709225
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method of short uniform resource locator (URL) lookup and feedback of various examples may include: receiving a request related with a short URL associated with a target URL; identifying resource information of the short URL which is descriptive of credibility of network resources pointed to by the target URL; and making the resource information provided to a user. Another method of short URL lookup and feedback of various examples may include: receiving a request related with a long URL; identifying an identity of a website providing network resources pointed to by the long URL, the identity is a character string or a logo; generating a short URL which includes the identity; and making the short URL provided to the user.

Claims

1. A method of short uniform resource locator (URL) lookup and feedback, comprising:

receiving a request related to a short URL which is associated with a target URL;

identifying resource information of the short URL which is descriptive of credibility of network resources pointed to by the target URL; and

making the resource information provided to a user;

wherein

the resource information comprises;

social networking traffic information including statistics obtained by a social networking platform based on traffic generated by users within the social networking platform to the network resources or to a website providing the network resources or based on feedback information related with the network resources or the website made by users of the social networking platform.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the resource information further comprises:

descriptive information of a website providing the network resources.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the descriptive information of the website comprises at least one of:

a name, a domain name, a type, a logo, text introduction, traffic statistics data, user statistics data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the social networking traffic information comprises at least one of:

within a social networking platform, the amount of visits to the short URL, the amount of clicks on the short URL, the amount of forwarding of the short URL, the amount of likes of the short URL, the amount of the short URL being added to favorites, the amount of complaints regarding the short URL, the amount of visits to the website providing the network resources, the amount of clicks on the website, the amount of complaints regarding the website.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the social networking traffic information comprises at least one of:

among contacts of a user related with the request within a social networking platform, the amount of visits to the short URL, the amount of clicks on the short URL, the amount of forwarding of the short URL, the amount of likes of the short URL, the amount of the short URL being added to favorites, the amount of complaints regarding the short URL, the amount of visits to the website providing the network resources, the amount of clicks on the website, the amount of complaints regarding the website;

wherein the request comprises an identity of the user in the social networking platform.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

the resource information further comprises:

an authentication result of authenticating the short URL performed by a web service provider, the authentication result indicates a result of reviewing credibility of the short URL by the web service provider.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein

the resource information further comprises:

introduction information of the network resources, the introduction information comprises at least one of;

a title, an abstract of content, a publication date, and information source.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

visiting the webpage pointed to by the target URL using a webcrawler, and extracting abstract information from the webpage as the introduction information of the network resources.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second request related with a long URL;

identifying an identity of a website providing network resources pointed to by the long URL, the identity is a character string or a logo;

generating a second short URL which includes the identity; and

making the second short URL provided to a second user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein generating the second short URL comprises:

using the character string as one of;

a prefix of a domain name of the second short URL, a sub domain name of the second short URL, a directory name of the second short URL.

11. An apparatus of short uniform resource locator (URL) lookup and feedback, comprising:

a storage module, for storing resource information corresponding to short URLs;

a lookup module, for receiving a request related with a short URL which is associated with a target URL;

identifying resource information of the short URL in the storage module, the resource information is descriptive of credibility of network resources pointed to by the target URL; and

making the resource information provided to a user;

wherein the resource information comprises social networking traffic information including statistics obtained by a social networking platform based on traffic generated by users within the social networking platform to the network resources or to a website providing the network resources or based on feedback information related with the network resources or the website made by users of the social networking platform.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the resource information further comprises at least one of:

descriptive information of a website providing the network resources, or

an authentication result of authenticating the short URL performed by a social networking platform, the authentication result indicates a result of reviewing credibility of the short URL by the social networking platform, or

introduction information of the network resources, the introduction information comprises at least one of;

a title, an abstract of content, a publication date, and information source.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the descriptive information of the website comprises at least one of:

a name, a domain name, a type, a logo, text introduction, traffic statistics data, user statistics data.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the social networking traffic information comprises at least one of:

within a social networking platform, the amount of visits to the short URL, the amount of clicks on the short URL, the amount of forwarding of the short URL, the amount of likes of the short URL, the amount of the short URL being added to favorites, the amount of complaints regarding the short URL, the amount of visits to the website providing the network resources, the amount of clicks on the website, or the amount of complaints regarding the website, or

among contacts of a user related with the request within a social networking platform, the amount of visits to the short URL, the amount of clicks on the short URL, the amount of forwarding of the short URL, the amount of likes of the short URL, the amount of the short URL being added to favorites, the amount of complaints regarding the short URL, the amount of visits to a website providing the network resources, the amount of clicks on the website, or the amount of complaints regarding the website;

wherein the request comprises an identity of the user in the social networking platform.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein

the lookup module is for visiting the webpage pointed to by the target URL using a webcrawler, and extracting abstract information from the webpage as the introduction information of the network resources.

16. A non-transitory storage medium, storing computer-readable instructions capable of causing a computer to perform actions of:

receiving a request related to a short URL which is associated with a target URL;

identifying resource information of the short URL which is descriptive of credibility of network resources pointed to by the target URL; and

making the resource information provided to a user;

wherein the resource information comprises social networking traffic information including statistics obtained by a social networking platform based on traffic generated by users within the social networking platform to the network resources or to a website providing the network resources or based on feedback information related with the network resources or the website made by users of the social networking platform.

17. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16, wherein

the resource information further comprises at least one of:

descriptive information of a website providing the network resources, or

an authentication result of the short URL obtained by a social networking platform, the authentication result indicates a result of reviewing credibility of the short URL by the social networking platform, or

introduction information of the network resources, the introduction information comprises at least one of;

a title, an abstract of content, a publication date, and information source.

18. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein the descriptive information of the website comprises at least one of:

a name, a domain name, a type, a logo, text introduction, traffic statistics data, user statistics data.

19. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16, wherein the social networking traffic information comprises at least one of:

within a social networking platform, the amount of visits to the short URL, the amount of clicks on the short URL, the amount of forwarding of the short URL, the amount of likes of the short URL, the amount of the short URL being added to favorites, the amount of complaints regarding the short URL, the amount of visits to the website providing the network resources, the amount of clicks on the website, or the amount of complaints regarding the website, or

among contacts of a user related with the request within a social networking platform, the amount of visits to the short URL, the amount of clicks on the short URL, the amount of forwarding of the short URL, the amount of likes of the short URL, the amount of the short URL being added to favorites, the amount of complaints regarding the short URL, the amount of visits to a website providing the network resources, the amount of clicks on the website, or the amount of complaints regarding the website;

wherein the request comprises an identity of the user in the social networking platform.