Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080288449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN AGGREGATE WEB SITE SEARCH DATABASE - Signature schema documents may be pre-defined using a query language to provide instructions for application by an engine to extract data from web pages of respective web sites. For a particular web page, signature schema instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract desired data from the web page in accordance with its web page family. The instructions use signatures previously identified within web pages of the same family to distinguish the web page family from others of the web site and to distinguish the desired data from other data for the web page family. A server may make one or more requests to obtain web pages from various web sites and apply respective signature schemas maintained in a repository coupled to the engine. Extracted data can be stored to an aggregate database. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288459 | WEB PAGE TRANSCODING METHOD AND SYSTEM APPLYING QUERIES TO PLAIN TEXT - Signature schema documents, pre-defined in a query language, provide one or more instructions for application by an engine to transcode plain text-based web pages of respective web sites. The instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract a subset of data using one or more signatures previously identified within web pages of the same web page family of the web site. The engine interprets the instructions to search the web page text for signatures to locate and extract the subset of data. Each signature may comprise at least one text string within the code of the web page. Directional references indicate positions of the subset of data relative to the location of the text strings and direct the searching. Transcoding may facilitate use of e-commerce web sites by wireless mobile devices. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING WEB PAGE TRANSCODING INSTRUCTIONS - A system and method are provided for generating transcoding instructions to identify and extract a subset of data from a web page. Input describing the subset of data is received where the input describes one or more data fields and, for each data field, respective field values from at least two sample web pages of a web page family for the web site. For each field, respective web page code defining the respective field values may be compared for commonality to find a matching pattern with which to locate the respective field values. The matching pattern comprises a signature for the data field. Transcoding instructions are defined using the matching pattern to locate and extract field values within web pages of the web page family. The subset of data may be expressed in a target format to transcode the web page for particular client machines (e.g. a wireless mobile device). | 11-20-2008 |
20080288476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESKTOP TAGGING OF A WEB PAGE - A system and method are provided for identifying and extracting a subset of data from a selected web page of a web site for display on a client machine. One or more instructions are applied to the selected web page for identifying and displaying a candidate subset of data on the client machine (i.e. a wireless mobile device). The instructions are applied in accordance with one or more pre-defined criteria defining one or more types of the subset of data, and one or more pre-defined confidence intervals defining a pattern for locating the subset of data in accordance with said one or more types on the selected web page. An interface may further be provided to allow the amendment or confirmation of the candidate subset of data. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING AN AGGREGATE WEBSITE SEARCH DATABASE USING SMART INDEXES FOR SEARCHING - Signature schema documents may be pre-defined using query language to provide instructions for application by an engine to extract data from web pages of respective web sites. For a particular web page, signature schema instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract desired data from the web page in accordance with its web page family. The instructions use signatures previously identified within web pages of the same family to distinguish the web page family from others of the web site and to distinguish the desired data from other data for the web page family. A server may make one or more requests to obtain web pages from various web sites and apply respective signature schemas maintained in a repository coupled to the engine. Indexes can be generated based upon the pre-defined data relationships to improve search capability. Extracted data and indexes can be stored to an aggregate database. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288486 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATE WEB SITE DATABASE PRICE WATCH FEATURE - Signature schema documents may be pre-defined using a query language to provide instructions for application by an engine to extract data from web pages of respective web sites. For a particular web page, signature schema instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract desired data from the web page in accordance with its web page family. A server may receive data from a web site and apply signature schema instructions maintained in a repository coupled to the engine. Extracted data can be cached to a database coupled to the engine to facilitate querying of the data to enable aggregate results to be presented to a client machine (e.g. a wireless device). The aggregate database can be monitored based upon defined user criteria such as for price changes of an item and provide appropriate notification to the client machine when changes occur. | 11-20-2008 |
20080289029 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUATION OF BROWSING SESSIONS BETWEEN DEVICES - A system and method are provided for continuing a browsing session initiated with a first client machine and a web site. The browsing session may be continued on a second client machine by tracking the navigation history associated with the browsing session of the first client machine. The navigation history comprises at least an address of a last viewed web page of the web site. Continuation of the browsing session is further facilitated by collecting at least one web cookie during the browsing session that is dependent upon the interaction between the first client machine and the web site. In this way, in order to allow switching between client machines to continue the browsing session, the navigation history and the at least one web cookie is provided from the second client machine to the web site to restore and resume the browsing session at the point that it was previously terminated. | 11-20-2008 |
20090157657 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSCODING WEB PAGES BY LIMITING SELECTION THROUGH DIRECTION - Signature schema documents, pre-defined in a query language, provide one or more instructions for application by an engine to transcode web pages of respective web sites. The instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract a subset of data from the web page using one or more signatures previously identified within web pages of the same web page family (e.g. in accordance with a shared template for each family) of the web site. The instructions may include one or more directional references relative to the signatures to locate and extract the subset of data within the web page. Signatures may comprise text strings within the code of the web page and the directional references indicate positions of respective data relative to the location of the text strings. Transcoding may facilitate use of e-commerce web sites by wireless mobile devices. | 06-18-2009 |
20090187574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK INTERACTION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES - The present specification provides, amongst other things, a method and system for network interaction between computing devices. In one embodiment a wireless client machine is provided that includes a mini web-browser that is configured to access a secure web-page from a web-server. The secure web-page includes an interactive form. The wireless client machine is also configured to access a schema that corresponds to the secure web-page. The wireless client machine is configured to render the secure web-page using the contents of the schema. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187820 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKOUT TRANSITION IN AN E-COMMERCE APPLICATION - A method and apparatus for transcoding content or elements of a webpage received at a client device, for example, a mobile communication device or other type of networked device. The apparatus includes a transcoding engine which is configured to transcode webpage content during a secure end-to-end connection between a client device and a website without the use of a proxy. According to an embodiment, the transcoding engine resides on the client, and is implemented as a plug-in to the browser, and transcoding instructions are provided to the client device by way of the signature file(s) each time the plug-in is invoked. The client device uses the transcoding instructions to manipulate the secure response from the secure server, for example, to transcode the response to a format suitable for display on the client device. | 07-23-2009 |
20090282345 | INTERACTION BETWEEN WEB PAGES AND LOCAL APPLICATIONS - There is disclosed a local application for a client machine such as a wireless device, and a method of operating the client machine. In an embodiment, the local application is responsive to an external trigger instruction via a web page in a web browser of the client machine, authenticating data access or functions of the local application. The local application may provide data maintained by the local application (e.g. in accordance with a form specified by the external trigger instruction invoking the local application). The external trigger instruction may be an invocation instruction embedded therein such as an extension embedded into the header or content type of the web page. The web page may further include field ID tags mapping specific data fields in the local application's data store to form input fields provided in the web page. | 11-12-2009 |
20100145973 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INTERACTIVE CONTENT ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system, device and method for managing interactive content on a computing device are provided. In an embodiment, a computing device in the form of a portable computing device is configured to execute a web-browser application and a parser application. The web-browser application is configured to obtain and display a web page. The parser application is configured to detect an interactive element in the web page, the interactive element initiating execution of an application when activated. The parser application is further configured to populate the web page with a visual identifier indicating the application initiated by activation of the interactive element. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146383 | System, Device and Method for Providing Context Sensitive Content on a Computing Device - A system, device and method for providing context sensitive content on a computing device is provided. In an embodiment, a computing device in the form of a portable computing device is configured to execute a primary web-browser application and a secondary web-browser application. The primary web-browser application is configured to generate a web-page containing context sensitive items and receiving focus on one of the context sensitive items. The secondary web-browser application is configured to generate the context sensitive content related to the one of the context sensitive items. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146399 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING WEBSITE FLOW STACK TO MANAGE SITE-WIDE CONFIGURATION - A method, apparatus and method for modifying website flow stack to manage site-wide configuration are provided. In one embodiment a client machine is configured to accesses a website and to extract configuration options from programming instructions embedded in the website. The client machine is further configured to generate the configuration options using a second set of programming instructions, and to receive a selection of the configuration options. The client machine is further configured to directly receive web pages from the website that are specific to the selected configuration options. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146449 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATION SWITCHING IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for managing an application switcher is provided. An embodiment includes loading a plurality of web pages and associating each web page with an application switcher application, and additionally associating the application switcher application with another application. When the application switcher application is invoked, both the open web pages and the another application are available for direct selection and invocation. | 06-10-2010 |
20100251125 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE CONTENT ON AN COMPUTING DEVICE - A system, device and method for providing interactive content on a computing device is provided. In an embodiment, a computing device in the form of a portable computing device is configured to execute a primary web browser application and a secondary web browser application. The primary web browser application is configured to generate a web-page including a fillable form on the portable computing device. The secondary web browser application is configured to receive the input for the fillable form by generating a mirrored fillable form, and to automatically populate the fillable form on the web-page using the completed version of the mirrored fillable form. | 09-30-2010 |