Patent ID: 8990678
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing alerts of an update to web site content, comprising: receiving, at an updating server, a plurality of requests from a plurality of visitors of a web site to be notified of an update to the web site content, wherein each request contains a universal resource locator of a web page and multiple addresses to which to send the alerts when the web site content at the universal resource locator is updated; transmitting a first message containing a copy of first selected content of the web site content to the plurality of visitors of the web site; ignoring, from a visitor of the plurality of visitors, a lack of response to the first message, wherein the lack of response to the first message is ignored based on an option specified in an update profile of the visitor; transmitting, after ignoring the lack of response to the first message, a second message to the visitor in accordance with the update profile, wherein the second message is associated with updating second selected content of the web site content; receiving, at the updating server and if a response to the first message is received, a revised copy of the first selected content of the web site content, wherein the first selected content is selected based on a sequential update type designated by the visitor; receiving, at the updating server, a revised copy of the second selected content of the web site content, wherein the second selected content is selected based on a random update type; updating, by the updating server and if the response to the first message is received, the web site content based on the revised copy of the first selected content and the revised copy of the second selected content; updating, by the updating server, the website content based on the revised copy of the second selected content; updating, by the update server, an update log for the web site in response to updating the web site content; after updating the update log for the web site, determining, at the updating server, whether any of the plurality of visitors have requested to be notified of the update to the web site content; and sending, from the updating server, an alert message to each of the multiple addresses contained in each of the plurality of requests received from at least a portion of the plurality of visitors to notify each of the at least a portion of the plurality of visitors of the update to the web site content in response to determining that the at least a portion of the plurality of visitors has requested to be notified of the update to the web site content.