Overloaded communication session

• US 20070067329A1
• Filed: 07/21/2005
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Baluja, Shumeet, Kamvar, Maryam, Gil, Elad
• Granted Patent: US 8,849,752 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/082 among bearers or channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

A method of providing information responsive to a request from a wireless communication device involves receiving an information request from a mobile device and generating responsive information for the information request, transmitting a first portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a first communication session, and transmitting a second portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a second, overloaded communication session.

Claims

1. A method of providing information responsive to a request from a wireless communication device, comprising:

receiving an information request from a mobile device and generating responsive information for the information request;

transmitting a first portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a first communication session; and

transmitting a second portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a second, overloaded communication session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the overloaded communication session comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) communication session.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the overloaded communication session comprises a socket communication session.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information request comprises a search request.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the responsive information in the first communication session comprises information in a first search result type, and the responsive information in the second, overloaded communication session comprises information in a plurality of search result types that differ from the first search result type.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communication session occurs before the second communication session.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first communication session is an overloaded communication session.

8. A method of transmitting requests and receiving information responses using a mobile communication device, comprising:

overloading a connection between the mobile communication device and a server, wherein the overloading includes

transmitting a search request from the mobile communication device to the server;

receiving at the mobile communication device from the server a first set of results associated with the search request; and

receiving at the mobile communication device from the server a second set of results in an overloaded communication session associated with the search request.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the receiving is carried out by a non-browser application.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying at least a portion of the first set of results before the second set of results has been fully received.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a selection of a result element in response to display of the first set of results or the second set of results, and generating a telephone connection in response to the selection.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a selection of a result element in response to display of the first set of results or the second set of results, and transmitting a text message in response to the selection.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a selection of a result element in response to display of the first set of results or the second set of results, and requesting a web page in response to the selection.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein receiving the first set of results and receiving the second set of results are performed by separate execution threads on the mobile communication device.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the first set of results and the second set of results relate to multiple different search types.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the multiple search types are selected from a group consisting of advertisements, images, web pages, maps, news, geographically specified (local) content, shopping, weather, and content resident on the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising displaying the multiple search types as display elements categorized by search type.

18. The method of claim 17, further wherein each category of search types is displayed separately.

19. The method of claim 17, further wherein one search type is displayed with another search type.

20. The method of claim 17, further wherein navigation between the multiple search types includes horizontal navigation.

21. The method of 15, further wherein search requests for the multiple different search types are generated in response to entry by a user through one entry point in a user interface.

22. A computer program product containing executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations, comprising:

overloading a connection between a mobile device and a server, wherein the overloading comprises

transmitting a search request from the mobile device to the server;

receiving at the mobile device from the server a first set of results associated with the search request; and

receiving at the mobile device from the server a second set of results associated with the search request.

23. A system for transmitting requests and receiving responses using a wireless device, comprising:

a connection module that establishes a connection between a mobile device and a server;

a query module that transmits a search request from the mobile device to the server; and

a means for separately receiving at the mobile device from the server a first and second set of results, wherein both results are associated with the search request.

24. A system for transmitting requests and receiving responses using a wireless communication device, comprising:

a connection module that establishes a connection between a mobile device and a server;

a query module that transmits a search request from the mobile device to the a server;

a result download module at the mobile device that receives from the server a first portion of results associated with the search request after a first time period and receives a second portion of results associated with the search request after a second time period; and

a display module at the mobile device that provides the first portion of results for display after the first time period and appends the second portion of results to the first portion of results for display after the second time period.