Method, device, and system for acquiring a web page

• US 8,499,033 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2009
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: He, Ling
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dustin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mesa, Joel
• Application Number:
  US12/583,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057847A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/201
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A technique for acquiring a web page includes: receiving, at a client, a user instruction; obtaining from the instruction a page number of a web page that a user desires to access; searching for web page data in a hidden form that is cached in advance at the client, the search being based at least in part on the page number and the hidden form comprising web page data for a plurality of page numbers and in the event that web page data is found in the hidden form, generating, by the client, the web page using the web page data.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring a web page, comprising:

receiving, at a client, configuration data including parameters associated with acquiring web page data;

receiving, at the client, a user instruction;

obtaining from the instruction a page number of a web page a user desires to access, wherein the page number of the web page is used to determine a starting position and an ending position within a database at a server configured to store one or more sets of web page data to be displayed at the web page associated with the page number based at least in part on a preset amount of data that each web page can display, wherein the preset amount of data is based at least in part on the configuration data;

searching for the web page data associated with the web page the user desires to access in a hidden form cached in advance at the client, the search being based at least in part on the page number and the hidden form comprising web page data for a plurality of page numbers, wherein an amount of data the hidden form can store is based at least in part on the configuration data; and

in the event that web page data is found in the hidden form, generating, by the client, the web page using the web page data;

wherein generating the web page the user desires to access using the web page data found in the hidden form comprises;

receiving an automatic mapping component at the client;

mapping, based at least in part on the automatic mapping component, the web page data found in the hidden form to preset properties of the web page data, wherein the preset properties of the web page data are determined based at least in part on the configuration data; and

generating content to be displayed at the web page using the mapped web page data and the preset properties.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein searching for web page data in a hidden form cached in advance at the client comprises:

determining the starting position and the ending position of the web page data the user desires to access within the hidden form, according to the page number of the web page required to be displayed by the user and the preset amount of data each web page can display; and

searching the hidden form for the web page data the user desires to access, according to the starting position and the ending position.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the event no web page data is found in the hidden form, further comprising acquiring the web page data from the server.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein acquiring the web page data the user desires to access from the server comprises:

sending to the server a web page data acquiring request including the page number of the web page the user desires to access, the preset amount of data that each web page can display, and the amount of data the hidden form can store;

receiving from the server web page data corresponding to a plurality of web pages, including web page data corresponding to the web page the user desires to access;

updating, by the client, the hidden form using the web page data of the plurality of web pages;

searching the updated hidden form for the web page data the user desires to access based at least in part on the page number; and

generating the web page the user desires to access using the web page data found in the updated hidden form.

5. A method for sending web page data, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a web page data acquiring request from a client;

obtaining from the request a page number of a web page that a user desires to access, a preset amount of data each web page can display, and an amount of data a hidden form can store, wherein the page number of the web page is used to determine a starting position and an ending position within a database at the server, wherein the server stores one or more sets of web page data to be displayed at the web page associated with the page number based at least in part on the preset amount of data each web page can display, wherein the preset amount of data each web page can display and the amount of data the hidden form can store are based at least in part on configuration data received at the client;

determining the starting position and the ending position associated with web page data associated with the web page that the user desires to access, based on the page number and the preset amount of data that each web page can display;

reading web page data from the database according to the starting position and the ending position;

reading web page data before the starting position, or after the ending position, or both, from the database according to the amount of data the hidden form can store; and

sending the web page data read from the database to the client;

generating the web page that the user desires to access using the web page data found in the hidden form comprises;

receiving an automatic mapping component at the client;

mapping, based at least in part on the automatic mapping component, the web page data found in the hidden form to preset properties of the web page data, wherein the preset properties of the web page data are determined based at least in part on the configuration data; and

generating content to be displayed at the web page using the mapped web page data and the preset properties.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein in the event the server reads the web page data before the starting position and after the ending position from the database, the amount of the web page data read before the starting position by the server is equal to the amount of the web page data read after the ending position by the server.

7. A client system comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive configuration data including parameters associated with acquiring web page data;

receive a user instruction;

obtain from the instruction a page number of the web page a user desires to access, wherein the page number of the web page is used to determine a starting position and an ending position within a database at a server configured to store one or more sets of web page data to be displayed at the web page associated with the page number based at least in part on a preset amount of data each web page can display, wherein the preset amount of data is based at least in part on the configuration data;

search for the web page data associated with the web page the user desires to access in a hidden form cached in advance, the search being based at least in part on the page number, and the hidden form comprising web page data for a plurality of page numbers, wherein an amount of data the hidden form can store is based at least in part on the configuration data; and

in the event web page data is found in the hidden form, generate the web page using the web page data; and

a memory coupled to the processor, configured to provide the processor with instructions;

wherein the processor generates the web page the user desires to access using the web page data found in the hidden form includes;

receiving an automatic mapping component at the client;

mapping, based at least in part on the automatic mapping component, the web page data found in the hidden form to preset properties of the web page data, wherein the preset properties of the web page data are determined based at least in part on the configuration data; and

generating content to be displayed at the web page using the mapped web page data and the preset properties.

8. The client system of claim 7, wherein the processor searches for web page data in the hidden form cached in advance at the client system, comprises:

determining the starting position and the ending position of the web page data the user desires to access within the hidden form, according to the page number of the web page required to be displayed by the user and the preset amount of data that each web page can display; and

searching the hidden form for the web page data the user desires to access, according to the starting position and the ending position.

9. The client system of claim 7, wherein in the event no web page data is found in the hidden form, the processor, acquires the web page data from the server.

10. The client system of claim 9, wherein the processor acquires the web page data the user desires to access from the server, comprises:

sending to the server a web page data acquiring request including the page number of the web page the user desires to access, the preset amount of data each web page can display, and an amount of data the hidden form can store;

receiving from the server web page data corresponding to a plurality of web pages, including web page data corresponding to the web page the user desires to access;

updating, by the client system, the hidden form using the web page data of the plurality of web pages;

searching the updated hidden form for the web page data the user desires to access based at least in part on the page number; and

generating the web page the user desires to access using the web page data found in the updated hidden form.

11. A server system comprising:

a communication interface receiving a web page data acquiring request from a client;

a processor coupled to the communication interface;

obtains from the request a page number of a web page a user desires to access, a preset amount of data each web page can display, and an amount of data a hidden form can store, wherein the page number of a web page is used to determine a starting position and an ending position within a database at the server configured to store one or more sets of web page data to be displayed at the web page associated with the page number based at least in part on the preset amount of data each web page can display, wherein the preset amount of data each web page can display and the amount of data that the hidden form can store are based at least in part on configuration data received at the client;

determine the starting position and the ending position associated with web page data the web page the user desires to access, based on the page number and the preset amount of data each web page can display;

read web page data from the database according to the starting and ending positions;

read web page data before the starting position, or after the ending position, or both, from the database according to the amount of data the hidden form can store;

send the web page data read from the database to the client; and

generating the web page the user desires to access using the web page data found in the hidden form comprises;

receiving an automatic mapping component at the client;

mapping, based at least in part on the automatic mapping component, the web page data found in the hidden form to preset properties of the web page data, wherein the preset properties of the web page data are determined based at least in part on the configuration data; and

generating content to be displayed at the web page using the mapped web page data and the preset properties.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein in the event the web page data is read before the starting position and after the ending position from the database, the amount of the web page data read before the starting position by the server is equal to the amount of the web page data read after the ending position by the server.

13. A network system, comprising:

a client, including a processor associated with the client;

receiving configuration data including parameters associated with acquiring web page data;

receiving a user instruction;

obtaining from the instruction a page number of the web page a user desires to access, wherein the page number of the web page is used to determine a starting position and an ending position within a database at a server configured to store one or more sets of web page data to be displayed at the web page associated with the page number based at least in part on a preset amount of data each web page can display, wherein the preset amount of data is based at least in part on the configuration data;

search for the web page associated with the web page the user desires to access data in a hidden form cached in advance at the client, the search being based at least in part on the page number, and the hidden form comprising web page data for a plurality of page numbers, wherein an amount of data the hidden form can store is based at least in part on the configuration data; and

in the event web page data is found in the hidden form, generate, by the client, the web page using the web page data;

wherein generating the web page the user desires to access using the web page data found in the hidden form comprises;

receiving an automatic mapping component at the client;

mapping, based at least in part on the automatic mapping component, the web page data found in the hidden form to preset properties of the web page data, wherein the preset properties of the web page data are determined based at least in part on the configuration data; and

generating content to be displayed at the web page using the mapped web page data and the preset properties; and

the server, including a processor associated with the server;

receiving a web page data acquiring request from the client;

obtain from the request the page number of the web page the user desires to access, the preset amount of data each web page, and the amount of data the hidden form can store;

determine the starting position and the ending position associated with web page data the web page user desires to access within the database of the server, based on the page number and the preset amount of data each web page can display;

read web page data from the database according to the starting position and ending position;

read web page data before the starting position, or after the ending position, or both, from the database according to the amount of data the hidden form can store; and

send the web page data read from the database to the client.