Management of interactions with representations of rendered and unprocessed content

• US 10,116,487 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2013
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Trahan, Matthew L., Jenkins, Jonathan A., Taylor, Brett R., Overton, Adam J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Barry, Lance Leonard
• Application Number:
  US14/071,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20140067923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,821 Days
• Field of Search: 709246, 709227, 709230, 709203, 709217-219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

A browsing process is directed to the management of interactions with representations of rendered and unprocessed content. A client computing device requests a first network resource from a network computing component. The network computing component processes the requested content for display, and provides a processing result corresponding to a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device. The client computing device may send user interaction data based on user interactions with the representation to the network computing component for processing. The client computing device may receive an unprocessed second network resource, and process a user interaction with a representation of the second network resource locally.

Claims

1. A system for remote session browsing, comprising:

one or more computer processors;

at least one computer memory accessible by at least one of the one or more computer processors; and

a client-side browser executed by the one or more computer processors, wherein the client-side browser is configured to at least;

transmit a request for first network content to a server-side browser executing on a server;

receive, from the server-side browser, a rendered version of the first network content generated by the server-side browser, the rendered version received in accordance with a display-based communication protocol;

cause display of the rendered version of the first network content;

determine, based at least partly on a remote browse session configuration, that a first user interaction with a local interface component of the client-side browser is to be processed remotely by the server-side browser, wherein the local interface component is displayed separately from the first network content;

transmit, to the server-side browser, interaction data reflecting the first user interaction;

receive, from the server-side browser, an updated rendered version of the first network content;

cause display of the updated rendered version of the first network content;

transmit, to the server-side browser, a request for second network content;

receive, from the server-side browser, an unprocessed version of the second network content;

generate, from the unprocessed version of the second network content, a visual representation of the second network content for display;

determine that a second user interaction with the local interface component displayed separately from the second network content is to be processed locally by the client-side browser; and

process the second user interaction locally.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network content comprises a network resource referencing one or more embedded resources.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network content can be processed in a plurality of processing actions.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein all of the plurality of processing actions are performed by the server-side browser.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the rendered version of the first network content does not include representations of local interface components associated with the server-side browser.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second network content can be processed in a plurality of processing actions, and wherein all of the plurality of processing actions are performed by the client-side browser.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the local interface component comprises one of:

a button, a menu, or a scrollbar.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote browse session configuration is based at least partly on at least one of:

a characteristic of the client-side browser;

a characteristic of the server;

a characteristic of the sever-side browser;

a characteristic of a content server of the first network content;

a characteristic of a network over which the server-side browser and client-side browser communicate;

a characteristic of a network over which the server and the content server communicate;

a security policy; and

a client preference.

9. A computer-implemented method for remote session browsing comprising:

as performed by a client-side browser executing on a client computing device,

transmitting a request for first network content to a server-side browser executing on a server;

receiving a rendered version of the first network content from the server-side browser, the rendered version generated by the server-side browser and received by the client-side browser in accordance with a display-based communication protocol, wherein a user interface generated on the client computing device by the client-side browser comprises a content pane and one or more local interface components separate from the content pane;

causing the rendered version of the first network content to be displayed in the content pane;

transmitting to the server-side browser, based at least partly on a remote browse session configuration, data regarding a first user interaction with a local interface component of the one or more local interface components, wherein the server-side browser is configured to process the first user interaction to generate an updated rendered version;

transmitting, to the server-side browser, a request for second network content;

receiving, from the server-side browser, an unprocessed version of the second network content;

rendering the unprocessed version of the second network content for display in the content pane; and

processing, by the client-side browser, a second user interaction with the local interface component.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the first network content can be processed in a plurality of processing actions.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein all of the plurality of processing actions are performed by the server-side browser.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the rendered version does not include a representation of a local interface component associated with the server-side browser.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the second network content can be processed in a plurality of processing actions, and wherein all of the plurality of processing actions are performed by the client-side browser.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the local interface component comprises one of:

a button, a menu, or a scrollbar.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions encoded thereon for managing remote session browsing, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computing apparatus, cause the computing apparatus to execute a client-side browser configured to at least:

transmit a request for first network content to a server-side browser executing on a server;

obtain, from the server-side browser, a processing result in accordance with a remote session communication protocol, the processing result corresponding to a rendered version of the first network content;

cause the rendered version of the first network content to be displayed in a content pane of the client-side browser based at least partly on the processing result;

provide, based at least partly on a remote browse session configuration, interaction data to the server-side browser, the interaction data reflecting a first user interaction with a user interface component displayed separately from the content pane;

receive, from the server-side browser, an updated rendered version of the first network content;

cause display of the updated rendered version of the first network content in the content pane;

transmit, to the server-side browser, a request for second network content;

obtain an unprocessed version of the second network content from the server-side browser;

render the unprocessed version of the second network content for display in the content pane; and

process, by the client-side browser, a second user interaction with the user interface component displayed separately from the content pane.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions further cause the computing apparatus to provide second interaction data to the server, wherein the second interaction data is based on the second user interaction with the visual representation of the second network content.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the first network content comprises a network resource referencing one or more embedded resources.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the first network content can be processed in a plurality of processing actions, and wherein all of the plurality of processing actions are performed by the server-side browser.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the second network content can be processed in a plurality of processing actions, and wherein all of the plurality of processing actions are performed by the client-side browser.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the user interface component comprises one of:

a button, a menu, or a scrollbar.