Webpage pre-reading method, transfer server and webpage pre-reading system

• US 8,375,107 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2011
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Guangzhou Ucweb Computer Technology Company, Ltd.
• Inventors: Liang, Jie
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hussain, Tauqir
• Application Number:
  US13/580,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20120317244A1
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The present invention provides a relay server-based web page pre-reading and integrated browsing method and system. The method includes: based on a page visit request sent from a mobile terminal for page data of a web page having a plurality of sub-pages, requesting the page data of the web page from a network resource server; after receiving the page data of the web page from the network resource server, performing a pre-reading process starting from the received page data of the web page and ending with pre-reading page data of a predetermined levels of sub-pages of the web page from the network resource server. By using the present invention, effective sub-pages can be flexibly obtained and the obtained sub-pages can be merged and rearranged. The web page display can be more flexible, user-friendly, and fast, reducing the user'"'"'s operating processes and enhancing the user experience when browsing web pages having multiple sub-pages.

Claims

1. A web page pre-reading method, comprising:

based on a page visit request sent from a mobile terminal for page data of a web page having a plurality of sub-pages, requesting the page data of the web page from a network resource server;

after receiving the page data of the web page from the network resource server, starting from the received page data of the web page and ending with pre-reading page data of a predetermined levels of sub-pages of the web page from the network resource server, performing a pre-reading process as follows;

performing pre-read keyword analysis on the page data of the web page or page data of a pre-read sub-page returned from the network resource server;

obtaining pre-read keywords contained in the returned page data of the web page or the pre-read sub-page;

based on a pre-read keyword with the highest priority from the obtained pre-read keywords, pre-reading page data of a next sub-page of the web page or of the pre-read sub-page;

merging and rearranging the pre-read predetermined number of levels of sub-pages; and

transmitting merged and rearranged combined web page data of the predetermined levels of sub-pages to the mobile terminal.

2. The web page pre-reading method according to claim 1, wherein the step of, based on a pre-read keyword with the highest priority from the obtained pre-read keywords, pre-reading page data of a next sub-page of the web page or of the pre-read sub-page further includes:

based on the pre-read keyword with the highest priority from the obtained pre-read keywords contained in the received page data of the web page or the pre-read sub-page, obtaining from the network resource server a URL address of the next sub-page to be pre-read; and

based on the obtained URL address, pre-reading the page data of the next sub-page from the network resource server.

3. The web page pre-reading method according to claim 2, wherein, after obtaining from the network resource server the URL address of the next sub-page to be pre-read, the method further includes:

determining whether the URL of the next sub-page is the same as a URL address of a most frequently visited page after visiting the web page or the pre-read sub-page based on mass user behavior statistics;

when the URLs are the same, obtaining the page data of the next sub-page of the web page or the pre-read sub-page from the network resource server based on the URL address of the next sub-page of the web page or the pre-read sub-page;

when the URLs are not the same, determining whether to pre-read the most frequently visited page based on a jumping visit rate of the URL of the most frequently visited page.

4. The web page pre-reading method according to claim 3, wherein

when the jumping visit rate exceeds a preset threshold, pre-reading the most frequently visited page based on the URL of the most frequently visited page;

and

when the jumping visit rate does not exceed the preset threshold, not performing any pre-reading operation.

5. A relay server, comprising:

a receiving unit configure to receive from a mobile terminal a page visit request for page data of a web page having a plurality of sub-pages and, in response to the page visit request, to receive page data of the requested page from the network resource server;

a pre-read keyword analyzing unit configured to perform pre-read keyword analysis on the page data of the web page or page data of a pre-read sub-page returned from the network resource server and to obtain pre-read keywords contained in the returned page data of the web page or the pre-read sub-page;

a page pre-reading unit configured to, based on a pre-read keyword with the highest priority from the obtained pre-read keywords, pre-read page data of a next sub-page of the web page or of the pre-read sub-page from the network resource server;

a determining unit configured to determine whether page data of a predetermined levels of sub-pages has been read;

a pre-read page combining unit configured to merge and rearrange the pre-read predetermined number of levels of sub-pages;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the page visit request to the network resource server and to transmit the merged and rearranged combined web page data of the predetermined levels of sub-pages to the mobile terminal;

wherein, after receiving the page data of the web page from the network resource server, starting from the received page data of the web page, the pre-read keyword analyzing unit and the page pre-reading unit are configured to process repetitively, until the determining unit determines that page data of a predetermined levels of sub-pages of the web page are pre-read from the network resource server.

6. The relay server according to claim 5, wherein the page pre-reading unit further includes:

a URL address obtaining module configured to, based on the pre-read keyword with the highest priority from the obtained pre-read keywords contained in the received page data of the web page or the pre-read sub-page, obtain from the network resource server a URL address of the next sub-page to be pre-read; and

a page data obtaining module configured to, based on the obtained URL address, pre-read the page data of the next sub-page from the network resource server.

7. The relay server according to claim 6, further including:

a mass user behavior statistics unit configured to, based on web page browsing behavior of mass users, statistically calculate user'"'"'s historical visit behavior of each page, visit frequency, and jumping visit rate; and

a determining unit configured to, after the URL address obtaining unit obtains from the network resource server the URL address of the next sub-page to be pre-read, determine whether the obtained URL is the same as a URL of a most frequently visited page after visiting the web page obtained by the mass user behavior statistics unit, wherein;

when the obtained URL is the same as the URL of the most frequently visited page obtained by the mass user behavior statistics unit, the page pre-reading unit is further configured to obtain the page data of the next sub-page from the network resource server based on the URL address of the next sub-page of the web page or the pre-read sub-page;

when the obtained URL is different from the URL of the most frequently visited page obtained by the mass user behavior statistics unit, the page pre-reading unit is further configured to perform pre-reading operation based on a jumping visit rate of the URL of the most frequently visited page.

8. The relay server according to claim 7, wherein:

when the jumping visit rate exceeds a preset threshold, the page pre-reading unit is further configured to pre-read the most frequently visited page from the network resource server based on the URL of the most frequently visited page; and

when the jumping visit rate does not exceed the preset threshold, the page pre-reading unit is further configured not to perform any pre-reading operation.

9. A web page pre-reading system, comprising a mobile terminal, a network resource server, and a relay server according to claim 5.

10. A web page pre-reading system, comprising a mobile terminal, a network resource server, and a relay server according to claim 6.

11. A web page pre-reading system, comprising a mobile terminal, a network resource server, and a relay server according to claim 7.

12. A web page pre-reading system, comprising a mobile terminal, a network resource server, and a relay server according to claim 8.

13. A web page pre-reading system, comprising a mobile terminal, a network resource server, and a relay server according to claim 5.