US 8,799,764 B2Granted

Method and system for parameterized web documents

AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.

InventorsBalas Natarajan Kausik, Janardhanan Jawahar

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Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for constructing web (or other networked) documents as parameterized forms of other networked documents. For example, a document may be represented as a collection of changes to be applied to a first document which is incorporated by reference in the second document. Instead of delivering the entire document over a slower network connecting the content server to the content browser, the document is delivered as a collection of changes to previously delivered documents that are much closer to the user's content browser. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, special software is not necessarily required at the end user for reconstructing the second document from the set of base documents and the set of modifications to the base documents.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A system to construct parameterized web documents, the system comprising:

a microprocessor to:
identify a base document that serves as a reference for a current document;
identify strings that occur in the base document that also occur in the current document, and strings that occur in the current document that do not occur in the base document;
and
create a condensed document comprising a programmatic representation including at least one parsable statement used to modify the base document with at least one string that occurs in the current document that does not occur in the base document, the condensed document configured to be parsed within a content browser to recreate the current document based on the at least one parsable statement and the base document, the programmatic representation condensing one or more of the strings that occur in the current document that do not occur in the base document, the programmatic representation being decodable by a decoder of the content browser, the content browser decoder being configured to perform at least one content browser function unrelated to decoding the programmatic representation.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying instructions which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to:

receive a current document to be distributed from a content server to a user;
identify a base document that serves as a reference for the current document;
identify strings that occur in the base document that also occur in the current document, and strings that occur in the current document that do not occur in the base document;
create a condensed document comprising a programmatic representation including at least one parsable statement used to modify the base document with at least one string that occurs in the current document that does not occur in the base document, the condensed document configured to be parsed within a content browser to recreate the current document based on the at least one parsable statement and the base document, the programmatic representation condensing one or more of the strings that occur in the current document that do not occur in the base document, the programmatic representation being decodable by a decoder of the content browser, the content browser decoder being configured to perform at least one content browser function unrelated to decoding the programmatic representation;
and
distribute the condensed document to the user in place of sending to the user the current document in its entirety.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/421,455Filed 31 May 2006 · continuation
Priority: 8 Aug 2000
Published: US 2006/0206796 A114 Sep 2006
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 40/166
Text processing: editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
G06F 16/9577
Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation: optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
G06F 40/197
Text processing: version control
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application09/634,134Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 8 Aug 2000
Application09/838,822Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Apr 2001
US 7,047,281 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 16 May 2006
US 2006/0206796 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Sep 2006
US 7,139,976 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Nov 2006
Application09/838,822Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2002/0087547 A1Published application
US 6,922,808 B2Related patent
US 8,799,764 B2This patent

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