Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing – Session/connection parameter setting
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-04
2001-08-14
Maung, Zarni (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing
Session/connection parameter setting
C709S223000, C709S224000, C709S225000, C709S226000, C709S227000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06275858
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to the data processing field, and more particularly, relates to a method, apparatus and computer program product for automated, intelligent refreshing of internet web pages.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
Valuable information available on the internet or World Wide Web (WWW) is often difficult or cumbersome and time consuming to use for reviewing internet web pages using current browsing technology. Refreshing of WWW sites is not handled well by browsers today. Known techniques typically cause either too much web traffic by refreshing too frequently, or not enough when refreshing is not provided when needed.
Most users keep a list, called either bookmarks or favorites, of the pages they often view. Known commercially available web browser programs include, for example, Netscape Navigator Version 3.01 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0. These browser programs allow the user to specify, on a global browser basis, how often web pages should be refreshed. The choices include always or every time the page is accessed, once per session, or never.
This manual approach, although better than nothing, often is under used, and in many cases not used at all, for control of refreshing. There are too many sites in typical bookmark lists for the average user to manually enter a wise refresh rate for each site. Individual users often lack information needed to effectively select a refresh option to effectively define how often individual pages are updated. Many users pick a higher than needed refresh rate just to be on the safe side, with a resulting needless increase in network traffic.
Another problem with browsers is that feedback of the effectiveness of user selected refresh options is nonexistent. Some internet web pages usually change on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Once a user picks a refresh option, the user has no way of knowing if the selection was a good choice. Of the refreshes that are performed responsive to a particular user selected refresh option, no feedback is provided on how many were needed or how many should have been done.
A need exists for browser technology that enables automated, flexible and efficient refreshing of internet web pages.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A principal object of the present invention is to provide an intelligent method, apparatus and computer program product for automated refreshing of internet web pages. Other important objects of the present invention are to provide such refreshing method, apparatus and computer program product that efficiently and effectively facilitates refreshing of particular internet web pages to be reviewed; to provide such refreshing method, apparatus and computer program product substantially without negative effect; and provide such refreshing method, apparatus and computer program product that overcome many of the disadvantages of prior art arrangements.
In brief, an intelligent method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for automated refreshing of internet web pages. Page data are stored including a record of page data values for each user selected internet web page. The page data values include at least one refresh interval, a last time refreshed and a last time accessed. A user request for refreshing an internet web page is received and the internet web page is refreshed. Utilizing the refreshed internet web page, checking for changes in the refreshed internet web page is performed. Then scanning the stored page data is performed and for each user selected internet web page, the stored refresh interval is compared with a current refresh time interval. For each user selected internet web page, responsive to the current refresh time interval being greater than the stored refresh time interval, the internet web page is refreshed.
In accordance with features of the invention, a feedback message is sent to the user responsive to refreshing an internet web page and the stored refresh interval is updated.
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Bates Cary Lee
Day Paul Reuben
El-Hady Nabil
International Business Machines - Corporation
Maung Zarni
Pennington Joan
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