CN103645912A - Method for loading browser extensions and/or plugins and browser - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins and a browser. The method includes: setting an extension and/or plug-in security engine on the browser side and an extension and/or plug-in security configuration file called by the engine , where the extension and/or plug-in security configuration file includes the security description information of the browser extension and/or plug-in; when the browser side loads the extension and/or plug-in, the extension and/or plug-in security engine invokes the extension and/or plug-in security configuration file, and judge the security of the extension and/or plug-in to be loaded according to the security description information of the extension and/or plug-in; load the extension and/or plug-in judged to be safe on the browser side. The embodiment of the present invention can effectively improve the security audit efficiency of browser extensions and/or plug-ins.

Description

Method and browser for loading browser extension and/or plug-in

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to a method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins and a browser.

Background technique

For the extension components provided in the browser, there are currently three main categories: the first category, extensions provided by the browser developer (that is, official extensions); the second category, extensions developed by browser partners; the third category, the third category Three parties provide extension components to the browser extension center platform.

For extension components provided by a third party on the browser extension center platform, usually the user installs the browser extension through the extension installation portal provided in the browser extension center platform. At present, most of the recommendation schemes for browser extensions and/or plug-ins are advertisement schemes, but there are not many schemes for browser extensions and/or plug-ins to be loaded after being recommended by the browser side.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above problems, the present invention is proposed in order to provide a method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins and a browser that overcome the above problems or at least partially solve the above problems, so as to achieve more browser extensions and/or plug-ins. Accurate recommendation.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins is provided, including: setting a recommended configuration table for extensions and/or plug-ins on the browser side, wherein the recommended configuration table includes at least one webpage URL Matching items with recommended extensions and/or plug-ins; loading the webpage requested by the user to obtain the URL of the webpage and the recommended configuration table; matching the URL of the webpage with the matching items in the recommended configuration table Matching, obtaining matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins; displaying a recommendation box on the browser side, and loading entry information of the matched recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins in the recommendation box; Matching the selection instruction of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, loading the selected recommended browser extension and/or plug-in to the browser side.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the matching items in the recommended configuration table include one or more of the following: a host name matching item, which represents the host name of a URL address of a certain type of website and the recommended browsing browser extension and/or plug-in match; domain name match, which indicates that the domain name of the URL address of a certain type of website matches with the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; and full match, which indicates the regular expression of the URL address of a certain website The expression matches recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, before the step of displaying the recommendation box on the browser side, one or more of the following conditions are judged: the browser currently has no browser extensions and/or plug-ins to be recommended; The box does not pop up; the client where the user is located records at least N visits to this type of URL within the first predetermined time, where N is a natural number; no other recommendation box appears at the position where the recommendation box is displayed in the current browser; the current browser's There is no record of not prompting to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in in the recommended configuration table; there is no record of not prompting to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in within the second predetermined time in the recommended configuration table of the current browser; and the number of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins installed by the user is less than a predetermined number.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a browser is provided, including: a setting module, adapted to set and store a recommended configuration table for extensions and/or plug-ins, the recommended configuration table includes at least one web page URL and recommended extensions and /or matching items between plug-ins; the acquisition module is adapted to load the webpage requested by the user to obtain the URL of the webpage and the recommended configuration table; the matching module is adapted to combine the URL of the webpage with the recommended configuration table Match the matching items in the matching item to obtain the matching recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; the recommendation module is adapted to display a recommendation box on the browser side according to the matching result of the matching module, and load the recommended box in the recommendation box. The entry information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; and the loading module, adapted to receive a selection instruction from the user for the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and load the selected recommended browser extension and/or plug-in Loaded to the browser side.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the matching items in the recommended configuration table include one or more of the following: a host name matching item, which represents the host name of a URL address of a certain type of website and the recommended browsing browser extensions and/or plug-ins; domain name matches, which represent a domain name match of a URL address of a particular website with recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins; and full matches, which represent a URL address of a certain website The regular expression matches recommended browser extensions and/or plugins.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the recommendation module displays a recommendation box on the browser side under one or more of the following conditions: the browser currently has no browser extensions and/or plug-ins to be recommended; The recommendation box does not pop up; the client where the user is located records at least N visits to this type of URL within the first predetermined time, where N is a natural number; no other recommendation box appears at the location where the recommendation box is displayed in the current browser; the current browser There is no record of not prompting to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in in the recommended configuration table of the current browser; there is no record of not prompting to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in within the second predetermined time in the recommended configuration table of the current browser ; The number of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins installed by the user is less than the predetermined number.

Utilizing the present invention, it is possible to realize precise recommendation loading of webpage-based browser extensions and/or plug-ins, realize personalized pop-up recommendation, and provide good user experience.

The above description is only an overview of the technical solution of the present invention. In order to better understand the technical means of the present invention, it can be implemented according to the contents of the description, and in order to make the above and other purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable , the specific embodiments of the present invention are enumerated below.

Description of drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment. The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating a preferred embodiment and are not to be considered as limiting the invention. Also throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same components. In the attached picture:

FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows an example of the recommended configuration table of the present invention;

Fig. 3 shows an example of the recommendation box displayed on the current webpage of the browser;

Fig. 4 shows another example of the recommended configuration table of the present invention; and

Fig. 5 shows another example of the recommendation box displayed on the current web page of the browser; and

Fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram of a browser according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided for more thorough understanding of the present disclosure and to fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 shows a flowchart of a method 100 for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 1, the method 100 starts at step S110, and at step S110, a recommended configuration table for extensions and/or plug-ins is set on the browser side, wherein the recommended configuration table includes webpage URLs and recommended extensions and/or plug-ins At least one match between .

In the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned browser may be a Firefox browser (Firefox), a Google browser (Google Chrome), a 360 safe browser, etc., of course, it can be understood that it is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention The specific type of browser.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the function of the plug-in (Plugins) is to apply the functions provided by the third party in the page through the embed and object tags, such as Flash plug-ins, Silverlight plug-ins, and Quicktime plug-ins. Extensions are additional software that can add some new features to the browser. In the browser, such as Weibo extension program, email extension program, cloud disk extension program, game extension program, etc., these extension programs can add some windows or buttons on the browser to extend the functionality of the browser.

Optionally, the matching items included in the recommended configuration table may include one or more of the following:

(1) Hostname matching item, which indicates that the hostname of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address of a certain type of website matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in.

(2) domain name matches, which means that the domain name of the URL address of a certain type of website matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; and

(3) Full match item, which means that the regular expression of the URL address of a certain website matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in.

Fig. 2 shows an example of the recommended configuration table of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2 , it gives an example of the corresponding relationship between URLs of some websites and recommended extensions and/or plug-ins in the recommended configuration table. Wherein, the domain name of the URL address of the "major e-commerce websites" corresponds to the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in "Price Comparison Plug-in", which adopts the matching rules of domain name matching items. That is, when the user visits one or more of the major e-commerce websites listed in the recommended configuration table, the browser will actively recommend the "price comparison plug-in" component to the user. At this time, it is mainly realized by detecting the domain name of the URL address of the website visited by the user.

It is also shown in FIG. 2 that the URL address of "12306" corresponds to the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in "Ticket Grabbing King", which adopts the matching rule of all matching items. That is, when a user purchases a train ticket online, the URL address of the website visited by the user will be compared with the matching items in the recommended configuration table. When selecting a website, the regular expression of the URL of the website visited by the user will be matched with the regular expression of the URL address in the recommended configuration table through the regular expression matching method. If it matches, the browser will recommend the extension component to the user. "Ticket King".

As shown in Figure 2, the following host names are listed in the recommended configuration table: "mail.163.com", "mail.qq.com", "mail.126.com", "mail.sina.com. cn", "mail.google.com", "mail.10086.com", "mail.sohu.com", and "mail.sogou.com", the recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins for these hostnames are "360 mail pass". When the user visits any URL address of the mailbox server listed in the recommended configuration table, the browser will recommend the extension component "360 Mail Communication" to the user.

By setting the recommended configuration table of extensions and/or plug-ins on the browser side, some websites can be associated with some recommended extensions and/or plug-ins, so that the browser can selectively recommend relevant extensions and/or plug-ins to users according to the websites they visit. Extensions and/or plug-ins, which usually meet the user's preferences or needs, will not cause interference to the user, and have a good user experience.

Subsequently, in step S120, the webpage requested by the user is loaded, and the URL of the webpage and the recommended configuration table are acquired. For example, when the user requests to visit "Jingdong Shopping Mall", the browser will load the webpage of "Jingdong Shopping Mall" to obtain the URL http://www.jd.com/ of "Jingdong Shopping Mall", and also obtain the URL set in step S110. Recommended configuration table.

Next, in step S130, the URL of the web page is matched with matching items in the recommended configuration table to obtain matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins. Taking the example mentioned above as an example, match the URL http://www.jd.com/ of the "Jingdong Mall" visited by the user with the matching items in the recommended configuration table in Figure 2, and first check the webpage visited by the user URL for detection and analysis.

URL consists of three parts: protocol type, host name (hostname), and path and file name. The protocol type refers to the specified transmission protocol, for example, ftp (file transfer protocol), http (hypertext transfer protocol), Telnet protocol, etc.; the host name (hostname) refers to the domain name system (DNS) host of the server storing resources name or IP address; the path is a string separated by zero or more "/" symbols, generally used to indicate a directory or file address on the host. For example, in the URL address of the webpage http://netlab.nankai.edu.cn/student/network.html , where http indicates the protocol type, netlab.nankai.edu.cn is the host name, student/network.html indicates the path and file name.

According to the composition of the URL of the web page visited by the user, different detections can be performed on the URL, for example, detection of the host name of the URL, detection of the domain name of the URL, or detection of the URL through regular expressions, and according to the detection results and recommendations Each matching item in the configuration table is matched. For example, the URL http://www.jd.com/ of "Jingdong Shopping Mall" accessed by the user is detected, and matched with the recommended configuration table in Figure 2, and its domain name and the "major e-commerce site" in the recommended configuration table are obtained. The domain name of a website in "Business Website". From the recommended configuration table in Figure 2, it can be seen that the recommended extensions and/or plug-ins corresponding to the "major e-commerce websites" are "price comparison plug-ins", thus obtaining recommendations that match the URL of the "Jingdong Mall" visited by the user Browser extensions and/or plug-ins "Price Comparison Plug-ins".

Next, in step S140, a recommendation box is displayed on the browser side, and the matching recommended browser extension and/or plug-in entry information is loaded into the recommendation box. Specifically, after the matching recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is obtained in step S130, a recommendation box will be displayed on the browser side, and the recommendation box can be located at the bottom of the toolbar of the webpage, or it can be a pop-up window, or displayed in other forms on the webpage visited by the user. In the recommendation box, the entry information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is loaded, and the user can click on the entry information to link to the address of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and choose whether to install it. As shown in Figure 3, the recommendation box is located at the bottom of the web page toolbar and displayed in a toolbar-like form, which displays the entry information of the recommended plug-in "adblock" (an advertisement filter), that is, in the recommendation box The button "Install adblock now" is displayed.

Optionally, when there are multiple browser extensions and/or plug-ins to be recommended to the user, before performing step S140, a step may also be performed: prioritizing the multiple browser extensions and/or plug-ins, In order to avoid conflicts when the browser recommends to the user. Optionally, the priority of each recommended browser extension and/or plug-in may be recorded as a record item in the recommended configuration table.

Optionally, in order to make the recommendation box displayed on the browser side affect the user's good experience as little as possible and avoid conflicts between the display of different recommendation boxes, one or more of the following conditions should be considered before displaying the recommendation box on the browser side Down:

A. The current browser does not have the recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins. Setting this condition can prevent the same extension and/or plug-in from being reminded repeatedly.

B. The recommendation box did not pop up that day. Setting this condition can prevent the same recommendation box from recommending to the user multiple times in one day.

C. It is recorded in the client where the user resides that the URL of this type has been accessed at least N times (eg 3 times) within the first predetermined time period (eg 7 days), where N is a natural number. Through this condition, it can be known how interested the user is in this type of URL.

D. There are no other recommendation boxes (such as the recommendation box of the default browser, the recommendation box of restoring history, etc.) appearing in the position where the recommendation box is displayed in the current browser. This condition is set to avoid conflicts with recommendation boxes of other extensions and/or plugins. When there are multiple recommendation boxes that can be popped up, the recommendation boxes of extensions/plugins with higher priority are displayed first.

E. There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that no longer prompts to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in. If the user has selected "Don't Prompt Again" in the recommendation box of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, it means that the user is not interested in the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, so the user can no longer recommend it to the user in the future browser extensions and/or plug-ins so as not to cause disruption to the user. If the user has not selected "don't prompt again," the recommendation box for the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in may be displayed to the user.

F. There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that there is no prompt to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in within the second predetermined time (for example, one month). The setting of this condition is similar to the function of condition F.

G. The number of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins installed by the user is less than a predetermined number (eg, 10). The setting of this condition can know to a certain extent whether the user is interested in recommending browser extensions and/or plug-ins. If many browser extensions and/or plug-ins are recommended to the user, but most of them are not installed by the user, it means that the user is not interested in recommending browser extensions and/or plug-ins. On the other hand, based on the condition, it can also be known that the user has not installed many browser extensions and/or plug-ins, and more browser extensions and/or plug-ins can be recommended to the user.

In the embodiment of the present invention, it can be set that the recommendation box is displayed on the browser side only when the above seven conditions or one or more conditions are met.

In addition, the information related to the above conditions can be recorded in the recommended configuration table, as shown in Table 4, compared with Table 2, the record items are added: times, extension prompt status, and current number of browser extensions. The record item "times" records the number of times the corresponding extension and/or plug-in is recommended to the user in a day in units of days, and is refreshed and recalculated every 7 days. This record item may correspond to the above condition D. The record item "Extended Prompt Status", which may include the states of "No Prompt" (can include count), "Waiting for Prompt" and "Prompted", is used to record whether the corresponding recommended extension and/or plug-in has been sent to the user After the prompt, and when the "Never Prompt" status is displayed, the number of times the previous user clicked the "Never Prompt" button can be displayed at the same time. For example, it can be set to record the current time when the user clicks "Never Prompt" more than 3 times. No more reminders within one month, and restart counting after one month. The record item "Extended Prompt State" may correspond to the preceding condition F and condition G. The record item "Number of current browser extensions" may be used to record the number of recommended extensions and/or plug-ins installed in the current browser, and this record item may correspond to the previous condition H. The recommended configuration table in Table 4 only gives an example. In fact, other record items can be added to the recommended configuration table as needed, such as pop-up window type, priority (used to record the name of each recommended extension and/or plug-in priority), etc.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment of the method according to the present invention, optionally, a step may also be included: updating the recommended configuration table at intervals. As can be seen from Table 4, the content of some record items in the recommended configuration table will change with time, and in addition, the extensions and/or plug-ins recommended to users may also increase, so it can be updated every predetermined time The recommended configuration table is obtained once, for example, the recommended configuration table is obtained every 6 hours.

Next, in step S170, a user's selection instruction for the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is received, and the selected recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is loaded to the browser side. When the recommendation box is displayed on the current web page of the browser, such as the recommendation box shown in Figure 3, the user can choose whether to install it according to his needs or preferences. When the user clicks the button "Install adblock immediately", then Load the plug-in "adblock" to the browser side.

In addition, optionally, after the aforementioned step S130, the following step S131 may also be included. In step S131, a request is initiated to the server side corresponding to the browser to obtain the network-side feedback information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, wherein the request includes at least the URL of the webpage visited by the user, the The matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and the content information in the webpage using the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in. According to the information contained in the request, it may be necessary to recommend browser extensions and/or plug-ins to the user requesting to visit which webpage, and the location of the server where the matched recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins are located may be located, and from The server obtains the network-side feedback information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and the network-side feedback information may include instance description information using the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, etc. . For example, when the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is an extension of "Price Comparison Shopping Bag", then the server where the "Price Comparison Shopping Bag" extension is placed obtains some instance display information using the extension, such as , the current price of a certain product is 3288 yuan, and told that it can be more than 100 cheaper here. Correspondingly, in step S140, the content displayed in the recommendation box may include the installation button of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in (that is, corresponding to its entry information), the recommended browser extension and/or Feedback information on the network side of the plug-in, and/or description information of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in. For example, as shown in FIG. 5 , when the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is an extension of "Price Comparison Shopping Bag", descriptive information about the extension of "Price Comparison Shopping Bag" may be displayed in the recommendation box : "Money, money, shopping bag to help you save money in online shopping, compare prices on the whole network, no cheating", from this description, users can know the function of this extension. In addition, the feedback information obtained from the network side can also be displayed. The recommendation box shown in Figure 5 shows an example information obtained from the server side: the current price of a product is 3288 yuan, and it is informed that it can be more than 100 cheaper here, thus explaining " Compare Prices Shopping Bags" extension works well to further show users how useful the extension is.

In addition, optionally, the recommendation box may also include a "Never Prompt" button indicating that the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is no longer prompted, and a "Show Other" button indicating that other browser extensions and/or plug-ins are recommended. One or both of the buttons for browser extensions and/or plug-ins. In order to avoid repeatedly recommending browser extensions and/or plug-ins that the user is not interested in, a button "don't prompt again" can be added in the recommendation box for the user to choose to click, as shown in Table 4. In addition, although multiple recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins cannot be displayed at the same time in the recommendation box, a button "Show other browser extensions and/or plug-ins" can be set to display other recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins Plug-ins are listed in the form of a list for users to click and select, as shown in Table 4. The multiple recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins listed in the list may be arranged in a preset priority order, and the priority order may be installed according to the clicked installation of the browser extensions and/or plug-ins. It can be set according to the number of times, or it can be set according to other standards.

In addition, optionally, in the above embodiments of the present invention, the following steps S150 and S160 may also be included. Wherein, in step S150, the browser rendering process obtains the background picture of the current web page, and receives the position information and size information of the picture display area of the user interface of the recommendation box sent by the main program of the browser, and converts the background picture of the current web page into the The picture information of the picture display area of the user interface of the recommendation box is sent to the browser main program. Next, in step S160, the browser main program receives the image information returned by the browser rendering process to render the background image in the image display area of the user interface of the recommendation box. By adopting steps S150 and S160, the background of the recommendation box displayed on the current webpage of the browser can be consistent with the background of the current webpage, and the appearance is more beautiful, and it will not appear abrupt and inconsistent with the webpage itself. Optionally, steps S150 and S160 may also be implemented before step S140.

By using the method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins of the present invention, accurate recommendation of browser extensions based on webpages can be realized, and the display of personalized pop-up windows can be realized.

In addition, the present invention also provides a browser, as shown in FIG. 6 , which shows a browser 600 according to an embodiment of the present invention, which includes: a setting module 610, an acquisition module 620, a matching module 630, and a recommendation module 640 , and load module 650.

Wherein, the setting module 610 is adapted to set and store a recommended configuration table of extensions and/or plug-ins on the browser side, and the recommended configuration table includes matching items between at least one web page URL and the recommended extensions and/or plug-ins. Optionally, the matching items in the recommended configuration table may include one or more of the following:

(1) Host name matching item, which indicates the matching between the host name of the URL address of a certain type of website and the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in.

(2) a domain name match, which indicates that the domain name of the URL address of a particular type of website matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; and

(3) Full match item, which means that the regular expression of the URL address of a certain website matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in.

Fig. 2 shows an example of the recommended configuration table of the present invention, for details, refer to the description in step S110 of the method above. For the sake of brevity, the description will not be repeated here.

By setting the recommended configuration table of extensions and/or plug-ins on the browser side, some websites can be associated with some recommended extensions and/or plug-ins, so that the browser can selectively recommend relevant extensions and/or plug-ins to users according to the websites they visit. Extensions and/or plug-ins, which usually meet the user's preferences or needs, will not cause interference to the user, and have a good user experience.

The acquiring module 620 is adapted to load the webpage requested by the user, and acquire the URL of the webpage and the recommended configuration table.

The matching module 630 is adapted to match the web page URL with matching items in the recommended configuration table to obtain matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins. During the matching process, the matching module 630 will perform different detections according to the URL of the webpage accessed by the user. The URL is detected, and then according to the detection result, it is matched with each matching item in the recommended configuration table. For specific description, refer to the description in step S130 above.

The recommendation module 640 is adapted to display a recommendation box on the browser side according to the matching result obtained by the matching module 630, and load the matching recommended browser extension and/or plug-in entry information into the recommendation box. Specifically, when the matching module 630 obtains a matching recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, the recommendation module 640 will display a recommendation box on the browser side. window, or displayed in other forms on the web pages visited by users. In the recommendation box, the entry information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is loaded, and the user can click on the entry information to link to the address of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and choose whether to install it. As shown in Figure 3, the recommendation box is located at the bottom of the web page toolbar and displayed in a toolbar-like form, which displays the entry information of the recommended plug-in "adblock" (an advertisement filter), that is, in the recommendation box The button "Install adblock now" is displayed.

In addition, optionally, the browser of the present invention may also include a priority setting module. The priority setting module is adapted to perform priority setting on the multiple matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins when the matching module 630 obtains multiple matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins, so as to avoid A conflict arises when the browser side recommends to the user. Optionally, a record item may also be set in the recommended configuration table to set priorities of different recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins, as shown in Table 4 above. Correspondingly, the recommendation module 640 displays the recommended browser extension with the highest priority in the recommendation box on the browser side according to the priority setting of the multiple matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins by the priority setting module and/or plugins.

Optionally, in order to make the recommendation box displayed on the browser side affect the user's good experience as little as possible, and to avoid conflicts in the display of different recommendation boxes, the recommendation module 640 considers one or more of the following before displaying the recommendation box on the browser side Under multiple conditions:

A. The current browser does not have the recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins. Setting this condition can prevent the same extension and/or plug-in from being reminded repeatedly.

B. The recommendation box did not pop up that day. Setting this condition can prevent the same recommendation box from recommending to the user multiple times in one day.

C. It is recorded in the client where the user resides that the URL of this type has been accessed at least N times (eg 3 times) within the first predetermined time period (eg 7 days), where N is a natural number. Through this condition, it can be known how interested the user is in this type of URL.

D. There are no other recommendation boxes (such as the recommendation box of the default browser, the recommendation box of restoring history, etc.) appearing in the position where the recommendation box is displayed in the current browser. This condition is set to avoid conflicts with recommendation boxes of other extensions and/or plugins. When there are multiple recommendation boxes that can be popped up, the recommendation boxes of extensions/plugins with higher priority are displayed first.

E. There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that no longer prompts to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in. If the user has selected "Don't Prompt Again" in the recommendation box of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, it means that the user is not interested in the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, so the user can no longer recommend it to the user in the future browser extensions and/or plug-ins so as not to cause disruption to the user. If the user has not selected "don't prompt again," the recommendation box for the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in may be displayed to the user.

F. There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that there is no prompt to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in within the second predetermined time (for example, one month). The setting of this condition is similar to the function of condition F.

G. The number of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins installed by the user is less than a predetermined number (eg, 10). The setting of this condition can know to a certain extent whether the user is interested in recommending browser extensions and/or plug-ins. If many browser extensions and/or plug-ins are recommended to the user, but most of them are not installed by the user, it means that the user is not interested in recommending browser extensions and/or plug-ins. On the other hand, based on the condition, it can also be known that the user has not installed many browser extensions and/or plug-ins, and more browser extensions and/or plug-ins can be recommended to the user.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the recommendation module 640 may display the recommendation box on the browser side only when the above seven conditions or one or several conditions are met.

In addition, the information related to the above conditions can be recorded in the recommended configuration table, as shown in Table 4, compared with Table 2, the record items are added: times, extension prompt status, and current number of browser extensions. For the specific explanation of Table 4, please refer to the specific explanation of Table 4 in the method described above, and for the sake of brevity, the description will not be repeated here.

In addition, optionally, the setting module 610 may update the recommended configuration table every predetermined time. From the recommended configuration table shown in Table 4, it can be seen that the content of some of the record items may change over time, and the extensions and/or plug-ins recommended to users may also increase, so they can be updated every predetermined time The recommended configuration table is obtained once, for example, the recommended configuration table is obtained every 6 hours. The predetermined time here can be set according to needs.

The loading module 650 is adapted to receive a user's selection instruction for a matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and load the selected recommended browser extension and/or plug-in to the browser side. When the recommendation module 640 displays a recommendation box on the current web page of the browser, such as the recommendation box shown in Figure 3, the user can choose whether to install it according to his needs or preferences. When the user clicks the button "install adblock immediately" , the loading module 650 can load the plug-in "adblock" to the browser side.

In addition, optionally, the browser of the present invention may further include a request module 660, which is adapted to initiate a request to the corresponding server side of the browser to obtain the matched network side of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in Feedback information, wherein the request at least includes the URL of the web page visited by the user, the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and the web page using the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in content information. Through the information contained in the request, it is possible to know which webpage to recommend to the user who requests to visit the browser extension and/or plug-in, and the location of the server where the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is located can be located, because different The extension and/or plug-in may come from a different extension and/or plug-in server 700, and the network-side feedback of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is obtained from the extension and/or plug-in server 700 located at The network-side feedback information may include instance description information of using the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and the like. Correspondingly, the recommendation box displayed on the browser side by the recommendation module 640 may include an installation button of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in (that is, corresponding to its entry information), the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in Feedback information on the network side, and/or description information of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in. For a specific example, refer to the previous relevant description about FIG. 5 .

In addition, optionally, the recommendation box displayed by the recommendation module 640 on the browser side may also contain a "never prompt" button indicating that the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is no longer prompted, and a button indicating that other browser extensions and plug-ins are recommended. One or both of the "Show other browser extensions and/or add-ons" button of the add-on. In order to avoid repeatedly recommending browser extensions and/or plug-ins that the user is not interested in, a button "don't prompt again" can be added in the recommendation box for the user to choose and click, as shown in Figure 4. In addition, although multiple recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins cannot be displayed at the same time in the recommendation box, a button "Show other browser extensions and/or plug-ins" can be set to display other recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins Plug-ins are listed in the form of a list for users to click and select, as shown in Figure 4. The multiple recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins listed in the list may be arranged in a preset priority order, and the priority order may be installed according to the clicked installation of the browser extensions and/or plug-ins. It can be set according to the number of times, or it can be set according to other standards.

In addition, optionally, the above-mentioned browser of the present invention may further include a rendering module 670 . The rendering module 670 may include a receiving and sending unit and a rendering unit. Wherein, the receiving and sending unit is suitable for the browser rendering process to obtain the background picture of the current webpage, and receives the position information and size information of the picture display area of the user interface of the recommendation box sent by the browser main program, and converts the current webpage The picture information of the picture display area of the user interface of the recommendation box belonging to the background picture is sent to the browser main program. The rendering unit is suitable for the browser main program to receive the image information returned by the browser rendering process to render the background image in the image display area of the user interface of the recommendation box. Optionally, the rendering module 670 may be set before the recommendation module 640 displays the recommendation box on the browser side, or after the recommendation module 640 displays the recommendation box on the browser side, so as to process the displayed appearance of the recommendation box. By using the rendering module 670, the background of the recommendation box displayed on the current webpage of the browser can be consistent with the background of the current webpage, and the appearance is more beautiful, and it will not appear abrupt and inconsistent with the webpage itself.

The embodiment of Fig. 6 shows the situation that each module is set independently of the main program of the browser, in fact, is not limited to this situation, one or more or all of said modules can also be set in the main program of the browser .

By using the browser of the present invention, accurate recommendation of browser extensions based on webpages can be realized, and the display of personalized pop-up windows can be realized.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure the understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, in order to streamline this disclosure and to facilitate an understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or its description. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the modules in the device in the embodiment can be adaptively changed and arranged in one or more devices different from the embodiment. Modules or units or components in the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-assemblies. All features disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) and any method or method so disclosed may be used in any combination, except that at least some of such features and/or processes or units are mutually exclusive. All processes or units of equipment are combined. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will understand that although some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments but not others, combinations of features from different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention. and form different embodiments. For example, any one of the embodiments claimed in the claims may be used in any combination.

The various component embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, or in software modules running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. Those skilled in the art should understand that a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP) may be used in practice to implement some or all functions of some or all components in the browser client according to the embodiment of the present invention. The present invention can also be implemented as an apparatus or an apparatus program (for example, a computer program and a computer program product) for performing a part or all of the methods described herein. Such a program for realizing the present invention may be stored on a computer-readable medium, or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may be downloaded from an Internet site, or provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In a unit claim enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The use of the words first, second, and third, etc. does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

The foregoing is only a specific embodiment of the present invention, and it should be pointed out that, for those of ordinary skill in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several improvements, modifications, and distortions can be made. These improvements, Modifications and deformations should be considered as falling within the scope of protection of this application.

The invention discloses A1, a method for loading browser extensions and/or plug-ins, including:

A recommended configuration table for extensions and/or plug-ins is set at the browser side, wherein the recommended configuration table includes at least one matching item between a webpage URL and the recommended extensions and/or plug-ins;

Loading the webpage requested by the user to access, obtaining the URL of the webpage and the recommended configuration table;

Matching the URL of the web page with the matching items in the recommended configuration table to obtain matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins;

Displaying a recommendation box on the browser side, and loading the matching recommended browser extension and/or plug-in entry information in the recommendation box; and

A user's selection instruction for the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is received, and the selected recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is loaded to the browser side.

A2. The method according to A1, wherein,

The matching items in the recommended configuration table include one or more of the following:

Hostname matching item, which means that the hostname of the URL address of a certain type of website matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in;

A domain name match, which indicates that the domain name of a URL address of a particular category of websites matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; and

Full match, which means that the regular expression of the URL address of a website matches the recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins.

A3. The method according to A1 or A2, wherein,

Before the step of displaying the recommendation box on the browser side, judge one or more of the following conditions:

The browser does not currently have a browser extension and/or plug-in to recommend;

The recommendation box did not pop up that day;

The client where the user is located records accessing this type of URL at least N times within the first predetermined time, where N is a natural number;

No other recommendation boxes appear at the position where the recommendation box is displayed in the current browser;

There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that no longer prompts to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in;

There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that does not prompt to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in within the second predetermined time; and

The number of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins installed by the user is less than a predetermined number.

A4. The method according to any one of A1-A3, further comprising:

The recommended configuration table is updated every predetermined time.

A5. The method according to any one of A1-A3, wherein,

Before the step of displaying the recommendation box on the browser side, the step may also be included: when there are multiple browser extensions and/or plug-ins to be recommended to the user, prioritizing the multiple browser extensions and/or plug-ins level settings.

A6. The method according to any one of A1-A5, wherein,

After said step of obtaining matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins includes:

Initiate a request to the server side corresponding to the browser to obtain the network-side feedback information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, wherein the request includes at least the URL of the webpage visited by the user, the matched recommended Browser extensions and/or plug-ins, and content information on web pages that use the matched recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins;

The step of displaying the recommendation box on the browser side and loading the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in entry information in the recommendation box includes:

The recommendation box includes an install button of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, network-side feedback information of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and/or the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in description information.

A7. The method according to A6, wherein,

The recommendation box also includes a "no more prompt" button indicating that the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is no longer prompted, and a "display other browser extension and/or plug-in" button indicating that other browser extensions and/or plug-ins are recommended one or both of the buttons.

A8. According to the method described in one of A1-A7, further comprising:

The browser rendering process obtains the background image of the current webpage, and receives the position information and size information of the image display area of the user interface of the recommendation box sent by the browser main program, and converts the background image of the current webpage that belongs to the user interface of the recommendation box The picture information in the picture display area is sent to the main program of the browser;

The browser main program receives the image information returned by the browser rendering process and renders the background image in the image display area of the user interface of the recommendation box.

The present invention also discloses B1, a browser, comprising:

A setting module, adapted to set and store a recommended configuration table for extensions and/or plug-ins, where the recommended configuration table includes at least one matching item between a webpage URL and the recommended extension and/or plug-in;

An acquisition module, adapted to load a webpage requested by a user, and acquire the URL of the webpage and the recommended configuration table;

A matching module, adapted to match the URL of the web page with the matching items in the recommended configuration table to obtain matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins;

The recommendation module is adapted to display a recommendation box on the browser side according to the matching result of the matching module, and load the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in entry information into the recommendation box; and

The loading module is adapted to receive a user's selection instruction for the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and load the selected recommended browser extension and/or plug-in to the browser side.

B2. The browser according to B1, wherein,

The matching items in the recommended configuration table include one or more of the following:

A hostname match, which represents a match between the hostname of a URL address of a certain type of website and a recommended browser extension and/or plug-in;

A domain name match, which indicates that the domain name of a URL address of a particular category of websites matches the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in; and

Full match, which means that the regular expression of the URL address of a website matches the recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins.

B3. The browser according to claim B1 or B2, wherein:

The recommendation module displays a recommendation box on the browser side under one or more of the following conditions:

The browser does not currently have a browser extension and/or plug-in to recommend;

The recommendation box did not pop up that day;

The client where the user is located records accessing this type of URL at least N times within the first predetermined time, where N is a natural number;

No other recommendation boxes appear at the position where the recommendation box is displayed in the current browser;

There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that no longer prompts to install the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in;

There is no record in the recommended configuration table of the current browser that the installation of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins is not prompted within the second predetermined time;

The number of recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins installed by the user is less than a predetermined number.

B4. According to the browser described in any one of B1-B3, it is characterized in that,

The setting module updates the recommended configuration table every predetermined time.

B5. The browser according to any one of B1-B3, further comprising:

a prioritization module adapted to prioritize a plurality of matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins when said matching module obtains said plurality of matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins;

Wherein, the recommendation module displays the recommended browser with the highest priority in the recommendation box on the browser side according to the priority setting of the plurality of matching recommended browser extensions and/or plug-ins by the priority setting module. extensions and/or plug-ins.

B6. The browser according to any one of claims B1-B5, further comprising:

The request module is adapted to initiate a request to the server side corresponding to the browser to obtain the network-side feedback information of the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, wherein the request includes at least the URL of the webpage visited by the user, The matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and the content information in the webpage using the matched recommended browser extension and/or plug-in;

Wherein, the recommendation box of the recommendation module includes the installation button of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, the network-side feedback information of the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in, and/or the recommended Description information for browser extensions and/or plug-ins.

B7, according to the browser described in B6, it is characterized in that,

The recommendation box of the recommendation module also includes a button of "not prompting again" indicating that the recommended browser extension and/or plug-in is no longer prompted, and a button of "show other browsers" indicating that other browser extensions and/or plug-ins are recommended. One or both of the buttons for Extensions and/or Plugins.

B8. According to the browser described in any one of B1-B7, it is characterized in that it also includes a rendering module. The rendering module includes:

The receiving and sending unit is suitable for the browser rendering process to obtain the background picture of the current web page, and receives the position information and size information of the picture display area of the user interface of the recommendation box sent by the browser main program, and converts the background picture of the current web page The picture information in the picture display area of the user interface belonging to the recommendation box is sent to the browser main program; and

The rendering unit is suitable for the browser main program to receive the image information returned by the browser rendering process to render the background image in the image display area of the user interface of the recommendation box.

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1. a method that loads browser extension and/or plug-in unit, comprising:

The recommended configuration table of expansion and/or plug-in unit is set, the expansion that wherein said recommended configuration table comprises at least one webpage URL and recommendation and/or the occurrence between plug-in unit in browser side;

The webpage that loads user's request access, obtains described webpage URL and described recommended configuration table;

Described webpage URL is mated with the occurrence in described recommended configuration table, obtain recommendation browser extension and/or the plug-in unit of coupling;

In browser side, show and recommend frame, and in described recommendation frame, load mated recommendation browser extension and/or the entrance information of plug-in unit; And

Receive user to mated recommendation browser extension and/or the selection instruction of plug-in unit, selected recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit are loaded into browser side.

2. method according to claim 1, wherein,

Occurrence in described recommended configuration table comprises one or more in following:

Host name occurrence, its host name that represents the URL address of a certain class website is mated with recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit;

Domain name occurrence, its domain name that represents the URL address of a certain class specific website is mated with recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit; With

Full occurrence, its regular expression that represents the URL address of a certain website mates with recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit.

3. method according to claim 1 and 2, wherein,

Before showing the step of recommending frame in browser side, carry out the judgement of following one or more conditions:

The current browser extension that will not recommend of browser and/or plug-in unit;

Recommended the same day frame not eject;

Client records at user place is accessed such URL at least N time within first schedule time, and wherein N is natural number;

In the demonstration of current browser, recommend the position of frame not have other to recommend frame to occur;

In the recommended configuration table of current browser, do not reresent the record that this recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit are installed;

In the recommended configuration table of current browser, within second schedule time, do not point out the record of recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit is installed; With

The recommendation browser extension that user installs and/or the quantity of plug-in unit are less than predetermined quantity.

4. according to the method described in any one in claim 1-3, also comprise:

Every a schedule time, upgrade once described recommended configuration table.

5. according to the method described in any one in claim 1-3, wherein,

Described, before the step of frame is recommended in the demonstration of browser side, can also comprise step: when having a plurality of browser extension and/or plug-in unit to recommend to user, described a plurality of browser extension and/or plug-in unit are carried out to priority level initializing.

6. according to the method described in any one in claim 1-5, wherein,

After the recommendation browser extension of described acquisition coupling and/or the step of plug-in unit, comprise:

To server side corresponding to browser, initiate request to obtain the network side feedback information of this recommendation browser extension matching and/or plug-in unit, in wherein said request, at least comprise described user's access webpage URL, described in the recommendation browser extension and/or the plug-in unit that match and use described in content information in the webpage of the recommendation browser extension that matches and/or plug-in unit;

The described step of show recommending frame and load the entrance information of mated recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit in described recommendation frame in browser side comprises:

The network side feedback information of the button installation that comprises described recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit in described recommendation frame, described recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit and/or the descriptor of described recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit.

7. a browser, comprising:

Module is set, is suitable for the recommended configuration table of setting Memory Extension and/or plug-in unit, in this recommended configuration table, comprise the expansion of at least one webpage URL and recommendation and/or the occurrence between plug-in unit;

Acquisition module, is suitable for loading the webpage of user's request access, obtains described webpage URL and described recommended configuration table;

Matching module, is suitable for described webpage URL to mate with the occurrence in described recommended configuration table, obtains recommendation browser extension and/or the plug-in unit of coupling;

Recommending module, is suitable for the matching result according to described matching module, shows and recommends frame, and in described recommendation frame, load mated recommendation browser extension and/or the entrance information of plug-in unit in browser side; And

Load-on module, is suitable for receiving user to mated recommendation browser extension and/or the selection instruction of plug-in unit, and selected recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit are loaded into browser side.

8. browser according to claim 7, wherein,

Occurrence in described recommended configuration table comprises one or more in following:

Host name occurrence, it represents the host name of URL address and mating of recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit of a certain class website;

Domain name occurrence, its domain name that represents the URL address of a certain class specific website is mated with recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit; With

Full occurrence, its regular expression that represents the URL address of a certain website mates with recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit.

9. according to the browser described in claim 7 or 8, wherein,

Described recommending module, under following one or more conditions, shows and recommends frame in browser side:

The current browser extension that will not recommend of browser and/or plug-in unit;

Recommended the same day frame not eject;

Client records at user place is accessed such URL at least N time within first schedule time, and wherein N is natural number;

In the demonstration of current browser, recommend the position of frame not have other to recommend frame to occur;

In the recommended configuration table of current browser, do not reresent the record that this recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit are installed;

In the recommended configuration table of current browser, within second schedule time, do not point out the record of recommending browser extension and/or plug-in unit is installed;

The recommendation browser extension that user installs and/or the quantity of plug-in unit are less than predetermined quantity.

10. according to the browser described in any one in claim 7-9, it is characterized in that, also comprise:

Request module, it is suitable for initiating request to obtain the network side feedback information of this recommendation browser extension matching and/or plug-in unit to server side corresponding to browser, in wherein said request, at least comprise described user's access webpage URL, described in the recommendation browser extension and/or the plug-in unit that match and use described in content information in the webpage of the recommendation browser extension that matches and/or plug-in unit;

The network side feedback information of the button installation that wherein, comprises described recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit in the described recommendation frame of described recommending module, described recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit and/or the descriptor of described recommendation browser extension and/or plug-in unit.

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