Patent ID: 8751606
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a hyperlink provided by a web service system, said web service system comprising a web server configured to provide a web page to a client, a content repository server configured to store at least one of candidate hyperlinks and a client history server, said method comprising: storing, in a client history sever hosted by a computing device, client history information, said client history information comprising one or more client identifiers (IDs) and, for each of the one or more client identifiers, one or more content IDs corresponding to content that has been previously requested by a user associated with the client ID; receiving, from a client at a second computing device, a request for a web page, said web page request comprising a client ID of said client; obtaining, by said second computing device, from said client history server at least one content ID corresponding to the client ID of said client; selecting one or more hyperlinks to be included in the web page among a set of candidate hyperlinks stored in said content repository server in association with the web page based on the at least one obtained content ID; and replacing, in the web page, each hyperlink that has been accessed by the client with a new hyperlink that has not been accessed by the client.