Single point of entry server solution for world-wide-web annotation services with reduced latency

• Main Authors: TONI, KARL-HEINZ, MAIER-DECH, HANS E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 06.01.2010
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Computer-implemented method for providing unified access to the World Wide Web (WWW) through a secure single-point-of-entry server (100), the single-point-of-entry server (100) comprising an intelligent and fast data rewrite engine, the method comprising: €¢ Receiving (107;302) from a client (130) a request (130-1) for a web site, wherein a transport connection (103) is established between the client (130) and the single-point-of-entry server (100); €¢ Extracting (108;304;404) user-specific information related to the client (1309 from a URI and/or a data storage device (120) connected with the single-point-of-entry server (100); €¢ Building (401) a user-specific request header according to the user-specific information; €¢ Transmitting (109;306) the request (130-1) with the user-specific request header to a host (140,150) hosting the web site; €¢ Receiving a response corresponding to the request (130-1) from the host (140,150) on the single-point-of-entry server (100); €¢ Performing (111;308-326) reprocessing of the response including at least one modification and/or emulation on the web site according to the request (130-1) at the single-point-of-entry server (100); and €¢ Transmitting (112;330) a modified response (403) to the client (130).