TW452712B - Off-line reading method for hyperlink selection on Internet - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is an off-line reading method for hyperlink selection on Internet. Firstly, syntax analysis will be carried out on the webpage documents to determine whether the syntactic element of the next hyperlink exists in the webpage documents. Then, whether the user has selected a hyperlink will be determined. If so, the selected hyperlink will be edited. Finally, in accordance with the hyperlink selected by the user, the documents referred by the element previously recorded will be downloaded onto a local storage medium.

Description

1 Field of the invention: The present invention relates to a method for reading special links on the Internet and reading ancient counties on the Internet. Penny has a method for selecting alternatives on the Internet. Offline reading with optional hyperlinks is especially possible. Download the hyperlinks that users care about. 5-2 Background of the Invention: The Internet is a global wide area network. This network uses telephone lines or dedicated lines to connect schools, government organizations and various research units around the world. Users can connect at any one Communicate with others on the internet, send emails or files. At present, there are more than 20 million computers connected to this system in the world, and only Albania is a country with no Internet connection around the world. The most commonly used services on the Internet are E-mail and File Transfer Protocol (FTP). At present, due to the popularity of the global information network combined with multimedia, it is also suitable for making personal homepages for people who want to show. The World Wide Web (Wor Id Wide Web) is referred to as WWW or 3W, which is called Triple r. It was developed by CERN (The European Laboratory for Part ic 1 e Phy si cs) and is on the Internet. A kind of multimedia (multinieciia) query system, this system can play multimedia transmission capabilities on the Internet, and has become a master on the Internet.

Page 4527! 2 V. Description of the Invention (2)-Streaming 'Because it combines a variety of communication media such as text, audio f, video, etc., through the World Wide Web server, users can easily access various media Information on different networks has now become one of the most popular networks on the Internet. Screens on the World Wide Web must use browsers that support HTTP and HTML transmission protocols before users can browse them. The graphic files appearing on the Global Information Network mainly include GIF, .JPG, .RGB, .HDF and other formats, while animation files are, FLI, .GI, video files are .AVG., .MPG, and audio files are .Αϋ, .VOC, etc. Because the global information website currently uses the HTTP protocol, most URLs will be preceded by the string "http: //". For example, http://www.discovery.com «HTMLCHyperText Markup Language) is A multimedia, hypertext markup language developed by the European Quantum Physics Laboratory. It is currently widely used on the global information network of the Internet. This language uses hyper 1 ink to connect different media. , So it has the ability to send multimedia over the network. An HTML file is composed of a number of tags and texts. 'Usually it is a plain text format text markup'. So we can use ordinary word processing programs to write it, so it also shows that HTML is a kind of A cross-platform language, and tags are used to create hyperlinks. 'It's similar to the control horse in Yitian Chinese archives; because HTML is an emerging language, its syntax is still evolving.' If the newer syntax is used in the browsed site,

4527t 2 V. Description of the invention (3) It is also necessary to use a new version of the HTML browser. The latest version of HTML is version 4.0, which can support dynamic web pages (DHTML 'Dynamic HTML), that is, adding multimedia such as animation and sound effects to web pages. The following is an example of an HTML webpage, which creates a simple text webpage, where &lt; HT ^ &gt;, &lt; HEAD &gt; are the tags of HTML: &lt; HTML &gt; &lt; HEAD &gt; &lt; TITLE &gt; Bruce Huang's personal Web page </ TITLE> <SCRIPT> if (self.parent, frames, length! = 0) self, parent, location = http: // www. Bhuang.com.tw 〈/ SCRIPT〉 &lt; / HEAD &gt; &lt; B0DY &gt; &lt; m &gt; &lt; I &gt; Bruce Huang &lt; / I &gt; 's personal profile &lt; / hi &gt; &lt; P &gt; Birthday: 1970 &lt; / P &gt; &lt; P &gt; Education: Institute &lt; / P &gt; &lt; P &gt; Blood type: B &lt; / P &gt; &lt; P &gt; Constellation: Shepherd &lt; / P &gt; &lt; P &gt; Occupation: Network Engineer / Author &lt; / p &gt; &lt; / B0DY &gt; &lt; / HTML &gt;

Page 6 45271 a V. Description of the invention (4) Uni-Resource Locator (URL; Uniform Resource Loactor) is an address representation method on the Internet. Its format is: FS cheme: / / Η 〇st · D 〇mai η [: P rt] / Pat / F i 1 e N ame. Where Scheme is the name of the network protocol, such as HTTP, Gopher, FT_P, File, News, Telnet, WAIS, MailTo, etc., and Host is the server name ', such as www, sun, ibm, alpha, etc., Domain is the domain name, such as microsoft.com.tw 'roc.gov.tw, whitehouse. g〇v, etc., port is the port number used, usually this parameter can be omitted' and Path and FileName are the names of the connected files, if we omit the daggers' Will use the system's default value, that is, browse to the site's HomePage (Homepage), but if the user knows, adding them to the single resource addresser will help find the speed of the data ° single resource addresser For example, http: // www, mi cro so ft com / taiwan, it is the single resource addresser of Microsoft in Taiwan, which represents the use of the http protocol, and the host is www ', but because most of the current on the Internet WWW station Mody + + ^ ^ ^ 〇 疋 all use ht tp as the communication protocol, so we often omit the previous agreement Qiu Yu, and all of them. 疋 W and write as www.microsoft, com / taiwan 0) t ίί News Network Information The program is called a browser (br0wser information website program), and can be viewed on the Internet w + w., ^ Microsoft Internet Explorer ^

Netscape Navigator ^ ^ e, Mori Temple is a common browser on personal computers.

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V. Description of the invention (5) General users want to search the Internet for information. The most common search engine is the search engine (i.e., the old-fashioned p fanshu vine in China) (www. Yam. Org .tw), "Qimo Station" (www.kimo.c〇jn tw), "11 Guisai Chinese Website" (www.whatsite.com), F Chinese Yahoo "(Chinese · yahoo, com), etc. There are "Yahoo" (www.yahoo, com), "Lycos" (www.lycos.com), etc. 0 The existing offline reading software for the Internet is to download a certain webpage and all the referenced target webpages it contains Next, if the user only cares about one or a few links on the webpage, not all links, then downloading all links is a waste of time and other resources. Β 5-3 Purpose and Summary of the Invention: In the background of the invention above 'Many shortcomings of traditional offline reading software, the present invention provides an offline reading method that can select hyperlinks on the Internet, and can freely choose one or several links to download and read to avoid the disadvantages of all downloads in the prior art. End, which saves time and resources. Another object of the present invention is to allow a user to freely select links on the webpage that he cares about, then download only the links selected by the user, and generate an index webpage composed of these links. By using the method provided by the present invention, users can obtain the content they want with the highest efficiency.

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V. Description of the invention (6) The present invention provides a method for offline reading that can select a hyperlink on the Internet. This method includes a main step. First, go to the first step and determine if the next hyperlink syntax element exists in the file on the web page. If the hyperlink syntax element exists ’, the three parts of the file on the web page are stored in a data structure, and the data structure is added to a first array, and then, the first step is returned. If there is no next hyperlink syntax element, the analysis ends. Then proceed to the second step, and judge whether the user chooses to end editing. If the user does not choose to end editing, it is judged whether the user chooses a hyperlink: if the user does not choose a hyperlink, the process returns to the second step. If: two-ίΐΐΪί 结 ’, then according to the selected single-resource locator, in group J: query matching elements *, and accumulate the complete grammatical part of element f by 1. "This section of the text will also be hyperlinked. If you use change = then return to the second step-and list the number ::; sub; step, effect: first, let -th-number is two arrays. A number of children t. If the -th number exists, it will generate the number indicated by the resource locator and download a single return from the first number of elements to determine that the first number is ^ °. Then, increase the first number by one, and then , The string variable is stored as a search step. If the first number does not exist, the offline reading method. ', The web file, and the end of the selection of the hyperlink 452712 V. Description of the invention (7) ~ 5-4 The above-mentioned objects and advantages of the present invention will be described in detail with the following examples and illustrations, where: The first figure is to parse the file displayed on the web page and determine whether the file on the web page has the next super The flowchart of the link syntax element; the second figure is a flowchart to determine whether the user chooses a certain hyperlink and edit the hyperlink selected by the user; the third figure is based on the hyperlink selected by the user, recording Flow chart of element download; The fourth diagram is a schematic diagram of a user when selecting a hyperlink according to the technology disclosed in the present invention; the fifth diagram is a j-brain technique disclosed in accordance with the present invention, showing a download result display diagram β 5-5 Detailed description of the invention: Some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below. However, in addition to the detailed description, the present invention can also be widely implemented in other embodiments. The scope of the present invention is not limited. Scope is subjective β The webpages we see on Internet browsers are interpreted in the operating system by plain text files in HTML format via the browser. Hyperlinks on webpages are represented by several HTML syntax elements Of which operating system

Page 10 V. Description of the invention (8) It can be a single-person simplex disk operating system (DOS), a single-person multi-tasking operating system, such as WIN98 'OS / 2, MAC / 0S, or multiple-person multi-working Operating system, such as 11〇1 ″ and 1? ('And various 1 ^ 1] (1101 ^. Common browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, but there are other browsers. Below is one of the HTML The format description is as follows: &lt; A HREF ^ 'DATA / PAGEl.HTM'jCLICK HERE &lt; / A &gt; where &lt; A HREF = &quot; DATA / PAGE1.HTM "&gt; means this is a link, DATA / PAGE1. HTM is the target file of this link; CLICK HERE is this link to display the text on the browser; &lt; / A &gt; is the end of this syntax. For this syntax, the present invention uses the following three steps to provide The selected offline reading method, where the first step refers to the first picture, the second step refers to the second picture, and the third step refers to the third picture. The first step 'as shown in the first picture' is to the currently displayed HTML The original file is parsed. First, go to the beginning of 1 〇〇β Then, in the original HTML file, the next hyperlink syntax element 1 〇 丨 is searched in order. Then, determine whether the next hyperlink syntax element is found 1 0 2. If it is not found, end 1 04 syntax analysis. If found ' Extract three data items from the original code of the found hyperlink to form a structure 103, where the first item displays a text or graphic path, the second item points to a single resource locator for the target, and the third item completes the hyperlink code. But need to modify the single resource locator,

Page 11 45271 2 V. Description of the invention (9) Change the target from the Internet to the local target. The local target is on the local storage medium. For example, 'A hyperlink code is &quot; &lt; A href = http: // www abc.com/html/xyz.htm&gt; this is the text you can see in browser &lt; / A &gt; &quot; The first item of data is A href =: /// DOWNSITE / TASKl / www. Abc.com/html/xyz.ht ro &gt; this is the text you can see in browser

Hhttp: // www. Abc. Com / html / xyz.htm &quot; The third item is &quot; &lt; A hr ef = ht tp; // www. Abc. Com / htm 1 / xyz. Htai &gt; th is is the text you can see in browser &lt; / A &gt; &quot; add this data to array A. Then return (101) * Repeat the above process until the end.

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The second step, as shown in the second figure, is to determine whether the user selects a certain hyperlink and edit the hyperlink selected by the user. First, enter the start 200, and then determine whether the user has finished the editing operation 201. If so, editing 204 ends. Otherwise, determine whether the user selects a hyperlink 2202 with an indicator in the "viewer control (can be provided by the Wind0ws system for displaying html webpage) window. If not, it returns 2 01. If yes, Then according to his single resource addresser, the application will be returned to the application with the NM-HOTSPOT message. The application uses this single resource addresser to compare with the single resource addresser item of each data in the array A, and finds the equivalent. Copy the data structure into array B, and take out its first and third items. The first item is to select the hyperlink to show this text 'to remind the user that the hyperlink has been selected. Then, all selected hyperlinks will be selected. The third item of the data structure is linked together and stored in the file. The resulting file is the HTML file of the index web page. This step is in 203 in the second garden. Then return to 021 and repeat the above process until the end. The third step, as shown in the third figure, is to download the selected link according to the hyperlink selected by the user. First, enter the start 300. Then, set n = i, as shown in step 301 in the figure. Determine if there is a! ^ Element 3〇2. If so, access the requested element from: Group B, download the second 2 of its single resource addresser, and refer to the original file, and follow its original directory The structure is stored in the local storage medium / step 303 as shown in the figure. Then, n = N + 1, as shown in step 3 in the figure. Then returns to 30.2. If not, that is, if there is no Nth element, the

Page 13 452712 V. Description of the invention (11) The character string S is stored as an index webpage file, as shown in step 304 in the figure. Then it ends, as shown in step 306 in the figure. As shown in the fourth and fifth figures, a specific embodiment according to the present invention is described. As shown in the fourth figure, for example, to download some two links from the homepage of www.software.com: 1) Software.com 'InterMai1 & reg * Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Intrastructure Solution for New Nexx.IP Messaging Service 2 ) GTE provides Outsourced E-mail to SmaJ1 Bus innes and Home Offices. First, parse the original HTML file of the homepage of www. Software, com. The original HTML file is: • «&lt; A HREF = &quot; news / pressrelease / pr990T14bellnex.html &quot; &gt; Software.com's InterMai1 &reg; Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia.IP Messaging Service &lt; / A &gt;

Page 14 4 7 1 2 V. Description of the invention (12) &lt; A HREF = &quot; news / pressrelease / pr9 9071 4gre. Html &quot; &gt; GTE provides Outsourced E-mail to Small Businesses and Home Off ices &lt; / A & gt After parsing, an array A containing all hyperlink data structures is obtained, where two elements are: The first element: the first item Software, coin's InterMail &amp;reg; Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia · IP Messaging Service (show this article); second news / pressrelease / pr9907 1 4gre.html (single resource locator to target)

Third item &lt; A HREF = &quot; FILE: /// DOWNLOA0SITE / 9OO / www. Software, com / πβ ws / pressreleases / pr990714bellnex.htral &quot; &gt;

Software. 0001 * s InterMai l &amp;reg; Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia.IP Messaging Service &lt; / A &gt; (complete hyperlink source code, but need to modify the single-resource locator ' Changed him from pointing to a target on the Internet to pointing to a local target

Page 15 4 52 7 f 2 V. Description of the invention (13) The second element; the first item GTE provides Outsourced E-mail to Small Businesses and Home Offices (show this article); the second item news / pressreiease / pr990714gre.html (Single resource locator to target);

Third item &lt; A HREF = &quot; FILE: ///DOWNLOADSITE/900/www.software.com/ne ws / pressreleases / pr990714. Gte. Html &quot; &gt; GTE provides Outsourced E-mail to Small Businesses and Home Off ices &lt; / A &gt; (The complete superlink is the original code, but the single resource addresser needs to be modified so that he changes from pointing to a target on the Internet to pointing to a local target as shown in the fourth figure. 'Editing & gt First, the user selects the first hyperlink mentioned above with an indicator, and its single resource locator (news / pressreieases / pr990714bellnex.html) will follow

The NM_HOTSPOT message is returned to the application, and the application uses this—a single resource addresser is compared with a single resource addresser entry for each data structure in array A 'and it will find the first element of the above, and this Elements are copied into array B and its first item (Software, com's InterMail &amp;reg; Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia. IP

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Messaging Service) to remind users that this hyperlink has been selected. The displayed window can be designed by operating system and browser. Add its third item (&lt; A HREF = &quot; FILE: /// DOWNLOADSITE / 900 / www. Software.com/ne ws / pressreleases / pr990714bellnex.html &quot; &gt;

Software, οοπι's InterMai 1 &amp;reg; Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia.IP Messaging Service &lt; / A &gt;) is added to the string S, followed by a newline syntax &lt; BR &gt; after S (For clear display of index pages, one hyperlink per line)

String S = &lt; A HREF = ,, FILE: /// DOffNLOADSITE / 900 / www. Software, com / ne ws / pressreleases / pr990714bellnex.htinl &quot; &gt;

Software, com's InterMail &reg; Software Selected by BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia.IP Messaging Service &lt; / A &gt;) &lt; BR &gt; The above is the process for the user to select the first hyperlink and the user to select the second The process of hyperlinks is exactly the same. Last string S = &lt; A HREF = &quot; FILE: / // DOWNLOADS ITE / 90 0 / www. Software.com/news/pressreleases/pr990714bellnex. Ht ml &quot; &gt;

Software. 00111 * s I n t er Ma i 1 &amp; r eg; Software Selected by

Page 17 45 ^ 7ί2 V. Description of the invention (15) BCE Nexxia as the Infrastrcture Solution for New Nexxia.IP Messaging Service &lt; / A &gt;) &lt; BR &gt;

&lt; A HREF = &quot; FILE: /// DOWNLOADSITE / 900 / www. software, cora / ne ws / pressreleases / pr990714.gte.html &quot; &gt; GTE provides Outsourced E-mail to Small Businesses and Home Offices &lt; / A &gt; &lt; BR &gt; Finally, the user selects to end editing. Finally ’download the selected link. For the first element in array B (the first element above), download the file indicated by its single resource locator (news / pressr * eleases / pr990714bellnex.htmi), and store it in accordance with its original directory structure. Local storage On a directory on the media, such as / DOWNLOADSITE / 900 /, the local file path is / DOWNLOADS ITE / 90〇 / www.software.come / news / pressreieases / pr990714bel lnex. Html »Local storage here The medium can be a hard disk (hartiisk), a floppy disk (fioppy), or other media that can be stored on the machine (media). For the second element in array b, download the file indicated by its single resource locator, "(newS / pressreieases / pr99〇714gte htnjl).

Page 18 V. Description of Invention (16). Finally, the string S is stored in the file /DOWNLOADSITE/900/index.htinl, and the generated file is the HTML file of the index web page. The display result of the index page is shown in Figure 5. The two download links are displayed in the window. The above are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of patent application for the present invention; all other equivalent changes or modifications made without departing from the spirit disclosed by the present invention shall be included in the following Within the scope of patent application.

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twenty two &amp; 'Apply for follow-up®' ^ A method for offline reading with optional hyperlinks on the Internet. This method includes at least: 9 Parse a document on a web page and determine whether the document on the web page has the next hyperlink Grammatical elements; determine whether the user selects a certain hyperlink, and edit the hyperlink selected by the use test; and download the hyperlink selected by the user. 2. If the method of the scope of patent application, item 1, Hui includes at least: element; and judges whether the next hyperlink syntax exists in the document on the webpage, and restores the document on the webpage with the next hyperlink syntax element. The contents are stored in a data structure, and the data structure is added to a first array. 3. The method according to item 2 of the scope of patent application, wherein the plurality of contents in the above-mentioned document on the webpage includes a single resource addresser, displaying the text, and complete hyperlink syntax elements. ^ 4 The method according to item 3 of the scope of patent application, wherein the above editing steps include at least: judging whether the user selects a hyperlink; according to the single resource addresser of a selected hyperlink, in the first array Query for a matching element in the query, copy the element into a second array; The scope of patent application of 20 I 5? 6? And the complete hyperlink syntax of the selected hyperlink _ knot are shown in the next section, and the hyperlink is added to a string variable. The above downloading step to the method of the fourth item of the patent scope, wherein the-array is taken from the array; and the first element ψ of δH is downloaded. The file indicated by the earlier resource locator 6. If the method of patent application scope item No. ① downloads the super selected by the user; the downloading steps in here are downloaded to the local storage medium. ,,,. It refers to the local storage medium described in the hyperlink below. The method in the scope of patent application No. 6 shall include at least a hard disk. 8. As for the method in item (1) of the scope of patent application, 1 You can choose the method for offline reading of hyperlinks: ^ described in the Internet to complete. ’Pan 1 of Wanfa System in-Operating System The party can choose a method for offline reading of hyperlinks on the Internet to determine whether there is a hyperlink syntax element in the document on the web page Page 21 /, 'Scope of patent application --------- Prime; save the content of the file on the webpage with the next hyperlink syntax element into a data structure, and add the data structure to determine the user Whether to select an array of hyperlinks f; according to the selected single link in the single asset group: copy the element to the complete hyperlink syntax element of the second-numbered knot 4 points, and simultaneously Even take the first :: accumulate from the second array into the-string variable; download the ij in the first few elements, and. Documents indicated by Dongzhong Single Resource Addresser 10. As described in item 9 of the patent application, the multiple contents of the document contain a single ^ ', where the above-mentioned complete hyperlink syntax elements on the webpage are included. The resource locator 'is shown in this article. As in item 9 of the scope of patent application, download the method selected by the user, where the above downloading step is downloaded to a local storage medium. The result is that the selected hyperlink is under 12. If the medium in the scope of the patent application, the 11th medium contains at least a hard disk. &Lt; Method 'where the above is stored locally. 13. If the scope of the patent, the 9th method, in which the above Internet 4 &amp; ^ 7r2 on the Internet Page 23