POSTPONED RENDERING OF SELECT WEB PAGE ELEMENTS

• US 20130212465A1
• Filed: 02/07/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alexander Kovatch
• Original Assignee: Alexander Kovatch
• Inventors: Kovatch, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US13/761,553
• Publication Number:
  US 20130212465A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets

Abstract

Method and apparatus for optimizing web page performance and/or enhancing user privacy by selectively delaying the loading and/or rendering and/or execution of specific web page elements until such time when the user specifically enables and/or interacts with and/or requires functionality of said elements.

Claims

1. A method, the method comprising:

receiving a web page description;

identifying original elements that can be optimized;

transforming the elements, replacing the original elements with optimized elements; and

outputting a new page description, wherein the optimized elements are rendered.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified elements are stored so that the original, unoptimized elements can be enabled later.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified elements are elements which degrade performance or share identifying information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the optimized elements improve performance of web page rendering or hide identifying information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the optimized elements, when rendered, are visually similar to the rendered result of the original, unoptimized elements that were replaced, preserving an intended page layout.

6. A method, the method comprising:

receiving a rendered web page containing a rendered result of optimized elements and information necessary to enable original, unoptimized elements;

waiting for an event;

transforming the rendered web page, replacing the rendered result of the optimized elements with the original, unoptimized elements; and

rendering the original, unoptimized set of elements, thereby generating the originally specified web page.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

capturing the event, wherein the event is one for which the rendered result of the original, unoptimized elements would be listening if it had it been rendered;

waiting for the unoptimized elements to finish rendering; and

sending the event to the rendered result of the original, unoptimized elements.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the event is a click on the rendered result of the optimized elements, resulting in a single-click interface for both activating the original, unoptimized elements and sending a click event to the rendered result of the originally specified, unoptimized elements.

9. A system, the system comprising:

at least one non-transitory memory;

one or more processors;

one or more network interfaces;

logic encoded, such that the processors;

intercept web page descriptions;

identify original elements that can be optimized; and

transform the original elements, replacing the original elements with optimized elements, generating a modified web page description.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the system is providing web browsing functionality and also comprises:

one or more output interfaces; and

one or more input interfaces;

wherein the processors render the modified web page description on the one or more output interfaces.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the system serves the role of one of a web application server, an intermediary server such as a proxy server, a virtual private network (VPN) or an internet service provider (ISP);

and the modified web page description is returned to a requestor via the one or more network interfaces.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the identified elements are elements that degrade performance or share identifying information.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the optimized elements improve performance of web page rendering or hide identifying information.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the optimized elements reference elements which can load from optimized locations including at least one of the system'"'"'s non-transitory memory, an alternate third party server, a local resource of the browser rendering the page, and as binary data encoded and included inline in the optimized page description.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the optimized elements, when rendered, are visually similar to the rendered result of the original, unoptimized elements that were replaced, preserving the intended page layout.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the processors store the identified elements in the non-transitory memory so that they can be enabled and rendered later.

17. The system of claim 9, further comprising a modified web page description including the identified elements needed to enable the original, unoptimized elements which were replaced along with instructions which, when executed by a web browser, can enable and render the original, unoptimized elements.

18. The system of claim 9, wherein an event triggers the processors to enable the original, unoptimized elements.

19. The system of claim 9, wherein the processors:

capture an event, wherein the event is one for which the rendered result of the original, unoptimized elements would be listening if it had it been rendered;

enable the original, unoptimized elements;

wait for the original, unoptimized elements to finish rendering;

send the event to the rendered result of the original, unoptimized elements.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the event is a click on the rendered result of the optimized elements, resulting in a single-click interface for both activating the original, unoptimized elements and sending a click event to the rendered result of the originally specified, unoptimized elements.