DE10154917A1 - Provision of information to potential customers of a supplier, whereby the supplier home page is expanded by provision of links to information provided by manufacturers of equipment or products offered by a supplier - Google Patents

Abstract

Method for expanding existing home pages (1, 1', 1) of a number of internet suppliers with essentially identical data has the following steps: generation of a base module with identical data for each of the internet suppliers, expansion of the base module with supplier specific information for containing data modules (3, 3', 3), storage of generated data modules in a server (4) and insertion of a link to the corresponding data module in the home page of the internet supplier. The invention also relates to a corresponding system.

Description

The invention relates to a method and a system for Provision of essentially identical data for one Variety of internet providers according to the generic term of Claim 1 or 5.

More and more companies now offer their products and Internet services. The Internet- Appearance of a provider is under one of the respective Provider reserved internet address (e.g. www.Name.de) saved that enter a potential internet customer to retrieve the offer of the company concerned.

The internet presence saved under the internet address - which is generally referred to as the homepage - usually includes only a limited number of Offered since the inclusion of a wide variety of Offered in the homepage usually with high technical Effort and high costs are associated with being constant Update the product range additional effort requires.

The Internet providers have therefore i. d. Usually only a limited one Selection of products from a manufacturer on their internet Appearance, for example the bicycle models A, B one Bicycle manufacturer X, but basically all offer other models from manufacturer X.

The Internet user now wants more information about the Products of this bicycle manufacturer X, he can - if available - via a link to the homepage of this manufacturer reach. However, he leaves the website of the original dealer. This has the following disadvantages: the manufacturers' appearances usually contain one List of other retailers who sell the products of the Manufacturers distribute and where the customer Can obtain comparative offers. Second is from Disadvantage that there is usually no link on the manufacturer's homepage back to the original retailer's website is included. The customer goes for the original dealer so often lost.

An example of such a known system is shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 1 shows schematically several Internet sites 1, 1 ', 1 "via the associated Internet address, not z. B. www.Name.de can be achieved. Each ISP offers a range of products, however, all products of a certain manufacturer. The internet presence 2 of the manufacturer can be reached from every provider page 1 , 1 ', 1 "via a link. However, this leads the Internet user directly to the manufacturer's homepage 2 with the above-mentioned disadvantages for the original dealer.

It is therefore the object of the present invention, one for the Internet provider inexpensive procedure or system to provide a potential customer with access to a can receive a large number of additional offers without the Having to leave a provider's website.

This problem is solved by the in claim 1 or 5 specified characteristics. Further embodiments of the Invention are the subject of dependent claims.

The main idea of the invention is data, which should be accessed from several websites, not - as is usually the case on the Internet - on one only place to store, but this data too duplicate and from it basic modules with identical data for to create each of the ISPs using the basic modules to supplement provider-specific information and the like created data modules on a separate server store.

Provider-specific information can e.g. B. the logo, the Address or other characteristics to identify the provider his.

Each of the data modules is finally sent to the associated one Docked homepage by placing a link on the homepage associated data module is inserted. With a click on the Link (e.g. bicycle models from manufacturer "X" in the homepage of the dealer) then information from the data module (Bicycle models, manufacturer X) downloaded and the Internet users appear as if the data module is more direct Part of the dealer homepage would be. Homepage and However, data modules are stored in different locations and only linked via a link.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, in each data module also a link back to the associated one Homepage of the internet provider inserted.

A data module preferably consists of a series of Sub-modules, each sub-module being a group of includes themed goods or services. In this case, the possibility of a Navigation from a sub-module (e.g. mountain bikes from Manufacturer X) to another sub-module (e.g. racing bikes of manufacturer X) may be provided.

A called data module can either in the browser window the homepage appear in which the Internet user currently located, or it may open a new window in which the desired content of the data module are displayed.

Provided that common image data is contained in the data modules are preferably in a global image file stored, which all of the data modules access.

A particularly simple embodiment of the invention exists in creating data modules that are essentially only Image data (a kind of image gallery) and provider-specific Contain information, the data modules in one in Smaller browser window displayed compared to the homepage become. In order to return to the homepage only that additionally displayed windows can be closed. A link back to the homepage is not required in this case. Such a data module preferably comprises only one certain limited group of goods or Services, navigating to other groups preferably not possible.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention by clicking on a link back to the homepage of a Provider does not execute the link directly, but initially called up an address page in which the domain address of the Internet provider is listed with this data module and the address is read from this page.

The websites of the Internet providers can be on different Servers of different providers. The Data modules are preferably on a separate server saved. The shared by the data modules Image file is preferably on the same server saved like the data modules.

The invention is described below with reference to the accompanying Drawings explained in more detail by way of example. Show it:

Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a known system for data management on the Internet.

Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of a system for managing identical data according to the invention.

With regard to FIG. 1, reference is made to the explanations given in the introduction to the description.

FIG. 2 shows on the right a number of home pages 1, 1 ', 1 "of various Internet providers that address Internet (www.Name.de) are each their own callable. The homepages can on different servers from different providers be saved.

The internet presence of a provider contains i. d. R. only one Selection of the provider's products or services For cost reasons, however, not all models or Services.

In order to expand the offer available on the homepage 1 , 1 ', 1 ", data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 " are generated which are docked onto the homepages 1 , 1 ', 1 ".

The data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 "consist of identical basic modules which have been supplemented by provider-specific information, such as the logo, the address or other identifiers of the provider. The content of one of the data modules can be, for example, the model range of manufacturer X bikes or a specific line of furniture manufactured by manufacturer Y.

Due to their almost identical content, the data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 "can be generated quickly and easily. In a first step, a basic module is first created, which is duplicated as required. Each of the basic modules is then supplemented by the provider-specific information ,

The data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 "thus generated are finally stored on a server 4 and docked to the associated Internet sites 1 , 1 ', 1 " by placing a link in the associated homepage 1 , 1 ', 1 " respective data module 3 , 3 ', 3 "is set.

Then a data module 3 , 3 ', 3 "can be called up from the associated homepage 1 , 1 ', 1 " via the link. From the point of view of the Internet user, the system behaves as if data continues to be read directly from the provider's website.

In the individual data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 "there is a link back to the original homepage 1 , 1 ', 1 " of the associated provider. When the link in one of the data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 "is clicked, an address page is preferably first called up, in which the link to the associated homepage 1 , 1 ', 1 " is recorded. As a result, the Internet address of a provider only has to be changed in one place.

If the data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 "contain memory-intensive data, such as, for example, images, they can be stored in a common image file 5 , which is accessed from all data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 ". In order to update the data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 ", the change only has to be included in a basic module and the new basic module or the change has to be copied into the other data modules 3 , 3 ', 3 ".

When changing an image, the image file 5 only has to be changed in one place.

The method or system described above thus offers a simple and efficient way of supplementing existing websites. Reference symbol list 1 , 1 ', 1 "homepages
2 manufacturer's homepage
3 , 3 ', 3 "data modules
4 servers
5 image file

Claims (8)

1. Method for supplementing existing websites ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") of a large number of Internet providers with essentially identical data, characterized by the following steps:
Creation of a basic module with identical data for each of the Internet providers,
Supplementing the basic modules with provider-specific information for receiving data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 "),
Storing the data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 ") thus created on a server ( 4 ), and
Insert a link to the associated data module ( 3 , 3 ', 3 ") in the home pages ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") of the Internet provider. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized by the insertion of a link to the associated homepage ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") in each data module ( 3 , 3 ', 3 "). 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that common image data contained in the data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 ") are stored in a global image file ( 5 ) to which the data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 ") is accessed from. 4. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that when you click on the link contained in the data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 ") back to the associated homepage ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") of an Internet provider, a page is called in which the address of the homepage ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") is listed. 5. System for providing essentially identical data for a large number of Internet providers, each with its own homepage ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") characterized by
several first servers on which the Internet providers 'homepages ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") are stored,
a second server (4) '"is stored, wherein the data modules (3, 3 (3, 3 on the for each of the Internet service providers own data module 3, 3)' ') have identical basic modules have, which are supplemented by additional Information , and
1, each of the homepages ( 1 , 1 ', 1 ") having a link to the associated data module ( 3 , 3 ', 3 "). 6. System according to claim 5, characterized in that the first and second servers ( 4 ) are provided by different providers. 7. System according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that a common image file ( 5 ) is stored on the second server ( 4 ), which is accessed by all data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 "). 8. System according to claim 5, 6 or 7, characterized in that an address file is stored on the second server ( 4 ), which is accessed by all data modules ( 3 , 3 ', 3 ").