METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PRELOADING WEBPAGES

• US 20180081984A1
• Filed: 10/23/2017
• Published: 03/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Uc Mobile Co., Ltd. (Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.)
• Inventors: LIANG, JIE
• Granted Patent: US 10,489,476 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and a device for webpage preloading. The method includes: conducting webpage preloading according to a current preloading policy, in which the preloading policy includes: a preloading time range, a preloading region, a preloading page depth, and an available caching space for preloading; counting historical data within a pre-set time period, in which the historical data includes: information about an accessed webpage, information about a preload webpage, and state information of a local cache; and updating the preloading policy based on the historical data. In the present disclosure, by way of counting the preloading historical data within a pre-set time period, and based on the changes in the historical data, the preloading policy is automatically updated, so that the preloading policy can adapt to network and user access conditions in real time, thereby improving the hit accuracy of webpage preloading.

Claims

1. A system for webpage preloading, comprising:

a storage device;

one or more processors;

a data acquiring unit stored in the storage device and to be executed by the one or more processors to acquire historical data comprising one or more types of information, including information about an accessed webpage, information about a preload webpage, and state information of a local cache;

an updating unit stored in the storage device and to be executed by the one or more processors to count the historical data within a pre-set time period and to update a pre-reading policy; and

a pre-loading unit stored in the storage device and to be executed by the one or more processors to conduct webpage preloading according to the pre-reading policy.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information about the accessed webpage comprises:

an access quantity of an accessed webpage and an accessed time range.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the data acquiring unit comprises a first counting sub-unit, and the first counting sub-unit, based on the access quantity of the accessed webpage and the accessed time range, calculates a time range when the access quantity is higher than a first threshold value;

and based on the time range when the access quantity is higher than the first threshold value, adjusts a preloading time range.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information about the accessed webpage comprises:

an access quantity of the accessed webpage and an access quantity of a preload webpage.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the data acquiring unit comprises a second counting sub-unit, and the second counting sub-unit, based on the access quantity of the accessed webpage and/or the access quantity of the preload webpage, calculates a user usage rate of the preload webpage, and based on the user usage rate, adjusts a preloading page depth.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the historical data comprises:

a service deployment region to which a terminal that conducts webpage accessing belongs.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the data acquiring unit comprises a third counting sub-unit, and the third counting sub-unit, based on the access quantity of the accessed webpage and the service deployment region to which the terminal that conducts webpage accessing belongs, calculates whether the access quantity in a pre-set region is higher than a second threshold value;

if yes, setts the pre-set region as a preloading region; and

if not, excludes the pre-set region from the preloading region.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the state information of the local cache comprises:

a capacity of a current free space in the local cache and/or a capacity of a repeatedly useable space in the local cache.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the data acquiring unit comprises a fourth counting sub-unit, and the fourth counting sub-unit calculates the capacity of a current free space in the local cache and the capacity of the repeatedly useable space in the local cache, generates a target space capacity;

and based on the target space capacity, adjusts a capacity of an available caching space for preloading.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a pre-loading unit, wherein the pre-loading unit is stored in the storage device and to be executed by the one or more processors, to select, in an initial state, a domain name from a pre-set domain name list and to load a webpage corresponding to the selected domain name to act as a reference page.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the pre-loading unit comprises a domain name selection unit, and the domain name selection unit selects the domain name from the domain name list based on domain name factors.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the domain name factors comprise:

one or more of an access quantity of a domain name, a domain name RTT, a domain name user quantity, a length of users'"'"' mean stay time, and a users'"'"' mean accessed URL quantity.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the domain name is selected from the domain name list based on the following factors in a sequence, including an access quantity of a domain name, a domain name user quantity, a users'"'"' mean accessed URL quantity, a length of users'"'"' mean stay time, and a domain name RTT.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the following steps:

acquiring historical data comprising one or more of information about an accessed webpage, information about a preload webpage, and state information of a local cache;

counting the historical data within a pre-set time period and updating a pre-reading policy based on the historical data; and

conducting webpage preloading according to the pre-reading policy.

15. A method for preloading a webpage onto a terminal comprising:

acquiring an access quantity of a webpage;

determining a preload time range for preloading the webpage based on the acquired access quantity; and

preloading the webpage onto the terminal within the determined preload time range.

16. A method for preloading a webpage of claim 15, wherein determining a time range for preloading the webpage based on the acquired access quantity comprises:

if the access quantity of the webpage within a time range is above a threshold value, determining the time range as the preload time range.

17. A method for preloading a webpage of claim 15, wherein preloading the webpage within the determined preload time range comprises:

preloading the webpage onto the terminal to a pre-set depth, the pre-set depth being more than 1.

18. A method for preloading a webpage of claim 15, wherein the webpage has a domain name that is in a pre-set domain name list for preloading.

19. A method for preloading a webpage of claim 15, further comprising:

determining a preloading region for preloading the webpage based on the acquired access quantity, and

wherein preloading the webpage within the determined preload time range comprises;

preloading the webpage onto the terminal within the determined preload time range when the terminal is within the preloading region.

20. A method for preloading a webpage of claim 19, wherein determining a preloading region for preloading the webpage based on the acquired access quantity comprises:

if the access quantity of the webpage within a region is above a threshold value, determining the region as the preloading region.