DATA LIMIT AWARE CONTENT RENDERING

• US 20160065687A1
• Filed: 08/26/2014
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Velusamy, Lakshmanan, Kalivardhan, Suriya Prakash
• Granted Patent: US 10,742,763 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A content rendering system to provide data limit aware content rendering is described. The content rendering system is configured to dynamically and in real time build, based on content requested from a client device, and based on and the data limit values associated with the requesting client device, a modified light version of the requested content that is less data intensive than the requested content. The content rendering system may provide the modified version of the requested content to the client device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server computer system, a request for a subject web page from a client device;

obtaining, from the client device, data plan information, the data plan information representing one or more constraints with respect to network access via the client device;

deriving, from the data plan information, data limit values; and

dynamically generating, in response to the request for the subject web page and using at least one processor, a modified web page based on the subject web page and the data limit values.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising causing displaying of the modified web page by the client device by communicating the modified web page to the client device, the modified web page utilizing less bandwidth than the subject web page.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising omitting, from the modified web page, a secondary data object from a plurality of data objects, the subject web page comprising the plurality of data objects.

4. The method of claim 3, comprising determining respective importance indicators for the one or more data objects present in the subject web page, the secondary data object being selected from the one or more data objects based on an importance indicator of the secondary data object.

5. The method of claim 3, comprising:

reducing the size of an image data object from the plurality of data objects to create a reduced size data object; and

including, into the modified web page, the reduced size data object in place of the image data object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data limit values include a value indicating a maximum amount of data that can be transmitted over the network using the client device over a period of time, the period of time starting on a predetermined calendar date.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the data limit values include a value indicating an amount of data that has been transmitted over the network since the predetermined calendar date.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the data limit values include a value indicating a remaining time period with respect to an expiration of the period of time starting on the predetermined calendar date.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the client device is a mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising communicating to the client device a request to permit access to the data plan information.

11. A computer-implemented system comprising:

a communications module, implemented using at least one processor, to receive, at a server computer system, a request for a subject web page from a client device;

a data plan module, implemented using at least one processor, to obtain, from the client device, data plan information, the data plan information representing one or more constraints with respect to network access via the client device;

a data limit values calculator, implemented using at least one processor, to derive, from the data plan information, data limit values; and

a data content processor, implemented using at least one processor, to generate, dynamically in response to the request for the subject web page, a modified web page, based on the subject web page and the data limit values.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the communications module is to communicate the modified web page to the client device, the modified web page utilizing less bandwidth than the subject web page.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the data content processor is to omit, from the modified web page, a secondary data object from a plurality of data objects, the subject web page comprising the plurality of data objects.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the data content processor is to determine respective importance indicators for the one or more data objects present in the subject web page, the secondary data object being selected from the one or more data objects based on an importance indicator of the secondary data object.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the data content processor is to:

reduce the size of an image data object from the plurality of data objects to create a reduced size data object; and

include, into the modified web page, the reduced size data object in place of the image data object.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the data limit values include a value indicating a maximum amount of data that can be transmitted over the network using the client device over a period of time, the period of time starting on a predetermined calendar date.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the data limit values include a value indicating an amount of data that has been transmitted over the network since the predetermined calendar date.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the data limit values include a value indicating a remaining time period with respect to an expiration of the period of time starting on the predetermined calendar date.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the client device is a mobile device.

20. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data executable by a machine to cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a server computer system, a request for a subject web page from a client device;

obtaining, from the client device, data plan information, the data plan information representing one or more constraints with respect to network access via the client device;

deriving, from the data plan information, data limit values; and

generating, dynamically in response to the request for the subject web page, a modified web page, based on the subject web page and the data limit values.