METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT WEB PAGE RENDERING

• US 20090282327A1
• Filed: 05/12/2008
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hamilton, Rick A. II, O'Connell, Brian M., Pickover, Clifford A., Walker, Keith R.
• Application Number:
  US12/118,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20090282327A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Web page annotation instructions comprise efficient and alternative instructions for rendering object data to a web page viewer, wherein the efficient instruction renders the object data to a web page viewer with less resource expenditure. An efficient rendering choice may be visually indicated and selectable by a viewer. Annotation instructions may indicate a relevance value of object data determinative of displaying object data. Efficient instructions may instruct a server device to not allocate new central processing units to serve requests to view the web page. Annotations may comprise first and second hypertext resource reference for a data object, wherein using the first results in rendering object data with a smaller resource expenditure than using the second, for example through divergent server efficiencies or divergent referenced object resolution properties. A resource contemplates energy and resource expenditures; generated waste, pollution and heat quantities and environmental impact.

Claims

1. A method for selective alternative rendering of a web page, comprising:

creating a web page comprising object data and annotation instructions for rendering the object data on the web page to a viewer, the annotation instructions comprising an efficient instruction for rendering the object data to the web page viewer and an alternative instruction for rendering the object data to the web page viewer,

selecting the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction;

rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction or the selected alternative instruction; and

wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction requires a rendering resource expenditure less than a rendering resource expenditure required to render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the alternative instruction.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising parsing the annotation instructions, and wherein the selecting the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction is a function of the parsing and a system configuration.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising visually indicating to the web page viewer an efficient rendering choice associated with the object data, and wherein selecting the efficient instruction comprises the viewer indicating a preference for the efficient rendering choice relative to the alternative instruction.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

the annotation instructions indicating a relevance value of the object data with respect to a content of the web page;

comparing the relevance value to a threshold value; and

selecting the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction as a function of the compared relevance value meeting or failing to meet the threshold value.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising parsing the annotation instructions or the object data to determine the relevance value.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected alternative instruction comprises rendering an included optional object data item;

and

rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction comprises omitting rendering the included optional object data item.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction comprises instructing a load-balancing server device to not allocate a new central processing unit to serve a request by the viewer to view the web page.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

the efficient instruction instructing a web page hosting provider to render the object data by using a first hypertext resource reference; and

the alternative instruction instructing the web page hosting provider to render the object data by using a second hypertext resource reference;

wherein using the first hypertext resource reference to render the object to the viewer requires a smaller resource expenditure than using the second hypertext resource reference to render the object to the viewer.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first hypertext resource reference is a reference to a first object located on a first server, and the second hypertext resource reference is a reference to a second object located on a second server;

and

wherein the rendering the object data to the web page viewer comprises obtaining the first object from the first server pursuant to the selected efficient instruction or obtaining the second object from the second server pursuant to the selected alternative instruction, an obtaining of the first object from the first server requiring the resource expenditure smaller than the resource expenditure required for obtaining the second object from the second server.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first hypertext resource reference is a reference to a low-resolution object and the second hypertext resource reference is a reference to an alternative resolution object, the alternative resolution object having a resolution value higher than a resolution value of the low-resolution object;

and

wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer comprises retrieving and rendering the low-resolution object pursuant to the selected efficient instruction or retrieving and rendering the alternative resolution object pursuant to the selected alternative instruction, the retrieving and rendering of the low-resolution object requiring the resource expenditure smaller than the resource expenditure required to retrieve and render the alternative resolution object.

11. The method of claim 3 wherein the rendering resource expenditure is selected from the group consisting of an energy expenditure, a resources expenditure, a generated waste quantity, a generated pollution emission quantity, a generated heat quantity and an amount of environmental impact.

12. A method for deploying an application enabling selective alternative rendering of a web page, comprising:

providing a computational device infrastructure configured to;

parse web page annotation instructions associated with web page object data, the annotation instructions comprising an efficient instruction for rendering the object data to a web page viewer and an alternative instruction for rendering the object data to the web page viewer;

select the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction as a function of a viewer resource usage preference input; and

render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction or the selected alternative instruction;

wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction requires a rendering resource expenditure less than a rendering resource expenditure required to render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the alternative instruction.

13. The method for deploying an application of claim 12, wherein the computer infrastructure is further configured to cause a display means to visually indicate to the web page viewer an efficient rendering choice associated with the object data, and select the efficient instruction in response to the viewer indicating a preference for the efficient rendering choice relative to the alternative instruction through the viewer resource usage preference input.

14. The method for deploying an application of claim 13, the annotation instructions further indicating a relevance value of the object data with respect to a content of the web page, and wherein the computer infrastructure is further configured to parse the relevance value and selecting the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction as a function of the relevance value meeting or failing to meet a threshold value.

15. A method for enabling selective alternative rendering of a web page, comprising:

producing computer executable program code;

storing the code on a computer readable medium;

providing the program code to be deployed and executed on a computer system, the program code causing the computer system to;

parse web page annotation instructions associated with web page object data, the annotation instructions comprising an efficient instruction for rendering the object data to a web page viewer and an alternative instruction for rendering the object data to the web page viewer;

select the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction as a function of a viewer resource usage preference input; and

render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction or the selected alternative instruction;

wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction requires a rendering resource expenditure less than a rendering resource expenditure required to render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the alternative instruction.

16. The method of claim 15, the program code comprising instructions which, when executed on the computer system, causes the computer system to render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to parsing the selected alternative instruction by rendering an included optional object data item, or render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to parsing the selected efficient instruction by omitting rendering the optional object data item.

17. The method of claim 16, the program code comprising instructions which, when executed on the computer system, causes the computer system to instruct a load-balancing server device to not allocate a new central processing unit to serve a request by the viewer to view the web page pursuant to parsing the selected efficient instruction.

18. A programmable device comprising:

a processing means;

a memory in communication with the processing means comprising an instruction parser logic component; and

a network interface in communication with the processing means and the memory;

wherein the processing means is configured to;

parse web page annotation instructions associated with web page object data, the annotation instructions comprising an efficient instruction for rendering the object data to a web page viewer and an alternative instruction for rendering the object data to the web page viewer;

select the efficient instruction or the alternative instruction as a function of a viewer resource usage preference input; and

render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction or the selected alternative instruction;

wherein rendering the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the selected efficient instruction requires a rendering resource expenditure less than a rendering resource expenditure required to render the object data to the web page viewer pursuant to the alternative instruction.

19. The programmable device of claim 18, further comprising a display means in communication with the processing means, wherein the processing means is configured to visually indicate to the web page viewer an efficient rendering choice associated with the object data, and to select the efficient instruction in response to a viewer input indicating a preference for the efficient rendering choice relative to the alternative instruction.

20. The programmable device of claim 19 wherein the processing means is configured to instruct a load-balancing server device in communication with the processing means to not allocate a new central processing unit to serve a request by the viewer to view the web page pursuant to the selected parsed efficient instruction.