Smart Content Pre-Loading on Client Devices

• US 20150186545A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Krutzler, Steve, Zavala, Gamaiel, Campbell, Edward J. III, Motgi, Amit, Lee, Arons, Tufan, Devrim
• Granted Patent: US 9,990,440 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/13 Prefetching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Software on a client device presents a webpage through a browser. The webpage is from an online content-aggregation website and includes a plurality of panels containing a plurality of content items. The software selectively pre-loads into a cache a resource associated with a content item in a panel if the content item is relatively persistent in comparison to other content items. The cache is controlled by the browser. The software retrieves the resource from the cache upon receiving command from a user and presents the resource through the browser.

Claims

1. A method, comprising the operations of:

presenting a webpage through a browser running on a client device, wherein the webpage is from an online content-aggregation website and includes a plurality of panels containing a plurality of content items;

selectively pre-loading into a cache a resource associated with a content item in a panel if the content item is relatively persistent in comparison to other content items, wherein the cache is controlled by the browser;

retrieving the resource from the cache upon receiving a command from a user; and

presenting the resource through the browser, wherein each of the operations is executed by one or more processors.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selective pre-loading depends at least in part on an implicit signal that is indicative of user focus on a content item or a panel containing the content item.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the implicit signal is a mouse-over or a mouse-hover associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the implicit signal is a finger-over or a finger-hover associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the implicit signal is stylus-over or a stylus-hover associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the implicit signal is associated with a specified time period that is dependent on the panel containing the content item.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the selective pre-loading is based at least in part on an interestingness ranking associated with the content item.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the selective pre-loading depends at least in part on activities of other users associated with the user through a list maintained by the online content-aggregation website or an online social-networking website.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item is one of a plurality of content items in a stream in a panel.

10. One or more computer-readable media persistently storing a program, wherein the program, when executed, instructs a processor to perform the following operations:

present a webpage through a browser running on a client device, wherein the webpage is from an online content-aggregation website and includes a plurality of panels containing a plurality of content items;

selectively pre-load into a cache a resource associated with a content item in a panel if the content item is relatively persistent in comparison to the other content items, wherein the cache is controlled by the browser;

retrieve the resource from the cache upon receiving a command from a user; and

present the resource through the browser, wherein each of the operations is executed by one or more processors.

11. The computer-readable media of claim 10, wherein the selective pre-loading depends at least in part on an implicit signal that is indicative of user focus on a content item or a panel containing the content item.

12. The computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the implicit signal is a mouse-over or a mouse-hover associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

13. The computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the implicit signal is a finger-over or a finger-hover associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

14. The computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the implicit signal is stylus-over or a stylus-hover associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

15. The computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein implicit signal is associated with a specified time period that is dependent on the panel containing the content item.

16. The computer-readable media of claim 10, wherein the selective pre-loading is based at least in part on an interestingness ranking associated with the content item or a panel containing the content item.

17. The computer-readable media of claim 10, wherein the selective pre-loading depends at least in part on online activities that are associated with the content item and that have been performed by social contacts of the user according to a list maintained by the online content-aggregation website or an online social-networking website.

18. The computer-readable media of claim 10, wherein the content item is one of a plurality of content items in a stream in a panel.

19. A method, comprising the operations of:

presenting a view on a client device, wherein the view includes a plurality of panels containing a plurality of content items received from an online content-aggregation website;

selectively pre-loading into a cache on the client device a resource associated with a content item in a panel if the content item is relatively persistent in comparison to the other content items;

retrieving the resource from the cache upon receiving a command from a user; and

presenting the resource in a view, wherein each of the operations is executed by one or more processors.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the selective pre-loading depends at least in part on an implicit signal that is indicative of user focus on a content item or a panel containing the content item.