METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PRE-FETCH DATA IN A NETWORK

• US 20140215013A1
• Filed: 03/31/2014
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Subramanian, Mahesh, Orcutt, William
• Granted Patent: US 10,523,779 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/172 Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• 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 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

A system, a computer readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method of pre-fetching in a network, are provided. In an example embodiment, computer-implemented method of pre-fetching in a network comprises receiving a request from a user device for a first network-accessible data item in the plurality of network-accessible data items; transmitting the first network-accessible data item to the user device; identifying a second network-accessible data item in the plurality of network-accessible data items; and transmitting the second network-accessible data item to the user device, the second network-accessible data item being transmitted before receiving a request for the second network-accessible data item from the user device. Pre-fetch logic may be embedded in the first network-accessible data item.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of pre-fetching in a network, comprising:

receiving a request from a user device for a first network-accessible data element of a plurality of network-accessible data elements;

transmitting the first network-accessible data element to the user device;

determining an anticipated selection of a second network-accessible data element of the plurality of network-accessible data elements; and

transmitting the second network-accessible data element to the user device before receiving a request for the second network-accessible data element from the user device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the second network-accessible data element to the user device includes transmitting the second network-accessible data element in a non-executable format for storage in the user device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first network-accessible data element includes one or more web pages, objects, programs, scripts and web page links, and wherein the second network-accessible data element includes one or more web pages, objects, programs, scripts and web page links.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the second network-accessible data element to the user device includes:

analyzing code included in the first network-accessible data element to identify the second network-accessible data element; and

transmitting the second network-accessible data element to the user device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the second network-accessible data element to the user device includes transmitting a portion of the second network-accessible data element to the user device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the portion of the second network-accessible data element includes static objects.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising transmitting a remaining portion of the second network-accessible data element to the user device.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element includes determining an anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element in a page flow.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the page flow includes a sequence of pages for performing an operation.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element includes determining an anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element based on frequently viewed web pages.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element includes determining an anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element based on a frequently viewed next web page in a page flow.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request for the second network-accessible data element from the user device includes receiving the request only if the user device determines the second network-accessible data element is not stored within the user device.

13. A system including hardware modules, comprising:

a receiving module configured to receive a request from a user device for a first network-accessible data element in a plurality of network-accessible data elements; and

a transmitting module, implemented using one or more processors, configured to;

transmit the first network-accessible data elements to the user device;

determine an anticipated selection of a second network-accessible data element of the plurality of network-accessible data elements; and

transmit the second network-accessible data element to the user device, the second network-accessible data element being transmitted before receiving a request for the second network-accessible data element from the user device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the first network-accessible data element includes one or more web pages, objects, programs, scripts and web page links, and wherein the second network-accessible data element includes one or more web pages, objects, programs, scripts and web page links.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the transmitting module is further to analyze code included in the first network-accessible data element to identify the second network-accessible data element.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the transmitting module is to transmit the second network-accessible data element to the user device including transmitting a portion of the second network-accessible data element to the user device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein portion of the second network-accessible data element includes static objects.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the transmitting module is to transmit the second network-accessible data element to the user device including transmitting a remaining portion of the second network-accessible data element to the user device.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the transmitting module is to determine the anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element including determining an anticipated selection of the second network-accessible data element based on a frequently viewed next web page in a page flow.

20. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium storing at least one program configured for execution by a computer, the at least one program comprising instructions to:

receive a request from a user device for a first network-accessible data element in a plurality of network-accessible data elements;

transmit the first network-accessible data element to the user device;

determine an anticipated selection of a second network-accessible data element of the plurality of network-accessible data elements; and

transmit the second network-accessible data element to the user device before receiving a request for the second network-accessible data element from the user device.