HTTP REQUEST PIPELINE OPTIMIZATION

• US 20130311601A1
• Filed: 05/17/2012
• Published: 11/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sekhar, Vivek
• Granted Patent: US 9,311,424 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0052 Realisations of complexity reduction techniques, e.g. pipelining or use of look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/1546 using pipelined operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/3063 Pipelined operation

Abstract

A computing device comprising a transmitter/receiver adapted to communicate with a network and an application adapted to send a plurality of object requests through the transmitter/receiver, wherein, the plurality of object requests are placed in an order dependent upon at least one of an object size and an object type.

Claims

1. ) A computing device comprising,

a transmitter/receiver adapted to communicate with a network;

an application adapted to send a plurality of object requests through the transmitter/receiver, wherein, the plurality of object requests are placed in an order dependent upon at least one of,

an object size; and

an object type.

2. ) The computing device of claim 1 wherein,

the object type comprises at least one of,

at least one JavaScript,

at least one cascading style sheet, and

at least one image;

and

the order of the plurality of object requests comprises,

a request for the at least one JavaScript before a request for the at least one cascading style sheet,

a request for the at least one cascading style sheet prior to a request for the image, and

a request for the image before a request for at least one video or audio file.

3. ) The computing device of claim 2 wherein,

the at least one JavaScript and at least one cascading style sheet comprise,

at least one JavaScript and cascading style sheet having a first object size, and

at least one JavaScript and cascading style sheet having a second object size, wherein the second object size is greater than the first object size;

and

the order further comprises, a request for the at least one JavaScript and cascading style sheeting having a first object size before a request for the at least one JavaScript and cascading style sheet having a second object size.

4. ) The computing device of claim 2 wherein,

the at least one image comprises a first image having a first image file size and a second image having a second image file size;

the second image file size is larger than the first image file size; and

the order further comprises a request for the first image before a request for the second image.

5. ) The computing device of claim 1 wherein, the plurality of object requests comprise a plurality of HTTP requests.

6. ) The computing device of claim 1 wherein, the application comprises a web browser.

7. ) The computing device of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of sockets;

and wherein,

the application is further adapted to receive an object size setting from a user;

one or more of the plurality of object requests comprises a request for a first object,

the first object comprising a file size greater than the object size setting, and

the request for the first object being sent from a first of the plurality of sockets; and

a remainder of the plurality of object requests comprises one or more requests for a plurality of second objects,

the one or more requests for the plurality of second objects is sent from at least one second of the plurality of sockets,

each of the plurality of second objects comprising a file size less than the object size setting.

8. ) A computing system comprising,

means for obtaining a file size of one or more digital objects;

means for determining a file type of one of more digital objects;

means for requesting a first portion of the one or more digital objects on a first socket, wherein the first portion of the one or more digital objects comprises a first file size range; and

means for requesting a second portion of the one or more digital objects on at least one second socket, wherein each of the one or more digital objects comprising the second portion comprises a digital object in a second file size range and is requested on a separate second socket.

9. ) The system of claim 8, wherein, at least one of the first file size range and the second file size range comprises a configurable range.

10. ) The system of claim 8, wherein, the means for obtaining a file size of one or more digital objects comprises issuing a HEAD request to a network device.

11. ) The system of claim 8 wherein,

the file type of the one or more digital objects comprises at least one

JavaScript,

cascading style sheet, and

image;

and further comprising,

means for requesting the at least one JavaScript and at least one cascading style sheet before requesting the at least one image.

12. ) A method to optimize pipelining of HTTP requests comprising,

determining at least one of a file type and a file size for each of the HTTP requests;

grouping the HTTP requests by at least one of the file type and the file size;

issuing one or more first HTTP requests for a at least one first file type on one or more sockets; and

issuing one or more second HTTP requests for at least one second file type on the one or more sockets after the one or more first HTTP requests have been issued.

13. ) The method of claim 12 wherein,

the one or more first HTTP requests comprises requesting a smaller file size of the at least one first file type before requesting a larger file size of the at least one first file type;

and

the method of claim 12 wherein, the one or more second HTTP requests comprises requesting a smaller file size of the at least one second file type before requesting a larger file size of the at least one second file type.

14. ) The method of claim 13, further comprising,

receiving one or more first files comprising the at least one first file type;

and

receiving one or more second files comprising the at least one second file type.

15. ) The method of claim 13 wherein,

the at least one first file type comprises at least one of a JavaScript and a cascading style sheet;

and

the at least one second file type comprises an image.

16. ) A non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method of optimize HTTP requests comprising,

determining a file size for an object being sought by each HTTP request;

determining a file type for the object being sought by each HTTP request;

sending a HTTP request for at least one first file type object; and

sending a HTTP request for at least one second file type object after sending the HTTTP request for the at least one first file type object.

17. ) The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising, receiving the at least one file type object before receiving the at least one second file type object.

18. ) The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein,

sending a HTTP request for at least one first file type object comprises sending a plurality of HTTP requests for at least one first file type object;

and

the plurality of HTTP requests comprise,

a first HTTP request for a first file type object having a first file size, and

at least one second HTTP request for a second file type object having a second file size being sent after the first HTTP request, wherein the second file size is greater than the first file size.

19. ) The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein,

the at least one first file type object comprises a JavaScript and a cascading style sheet;

and

the at least one second file type object comprises an image.

20. ) The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein, the file type comprises the MIME type.