System for acceleration of web page delivery

• US 8,387,099 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2007
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: OL2 Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Perlman, Stephen G., van der Laan, Roger
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Pankaj
• Assistant Examiner(s): Raman, Usha
• Application Number:
  US11/999,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20090119731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,910 Days
• Field of Search: 463/40, 725/135, 715/740
• US Class Current: 725/87
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/358 Adapting the game course according to the network or server load, e.g. for reducing latency due to different connection speeds between clients
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/402 Communication between platforms, i.e. physical link to protocol
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/407 Data transfer via internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/513 server hierarchy, e.g. local, regional, national or dedicated for different tasks, e.g. authenticating, billing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/534 for network load management, e.g. bandwidth optimization, latency reduction
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/538 for performing operations on behalf of the game client, e.g. rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2143 located in a single building, e.g. hotel, hospital or museum arrangements specially adapted for plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63; adaptations for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution in television systems H04N7/106
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/81 Monomedia components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/106 for domestic distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 : Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]

Abstract

A method comprising running a web browser on one or more servers of a service center, and hosting files for a web page on a storage unit associated with the one or more servers. Upon receiving user input from a client device to the web browser at the service center, streaming interactive video web page is transmitted to the client device with substantially no detectable latency.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

running a web browser application on servers in one or more hosting service centers, the web browser application being used by at least one user remote to the one or more hosting service centers over a network via interactive compressed streaming video displayed on a client device; and

providing the at least one user with access to at least one web page via the web browser application;

wherein the interactive content of the web page is displayed without perceptible latency to the at least one user on the client device responsive to a request of the user to view the at least one web page, wherein the worst case latency between the user request and the display of the interactive content of the web page is 90 milliseconds when the user is located 1500 miles and under from the one or more hosting service centers.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the web browser application has access to a faster network connection to a web site server than the at least one user has locally.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the web browser application has access to a lower latency network connection to a web site server than the at least one user has locally.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the server running the web browser application has a higher performance than the client device utilized by the at least one user locally.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein web site data is hosted locally in the one or more hosting service centers with high bandwidth, low-latency access via the web browser application.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the interactive compressed streaming video only transmits parts of the at least one web page that change with time.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein parts of the at least one web page that would not be visible to the at least one user running a local browser unless some revealing user action of event occurs are not transmitted to the at least one user unless such action or event occurs.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 wherein the parts of the at least one web page that would not be visible to the at least one user include rollover images.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the interactive compressed streaming video is compressed with a latency of 80 ms or less.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 wherein the parts of the at least one web page that would not be visible to the user include parts of the page beyond the edge of the client device display window.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, which, when executed, is operable to:

run a web browser application on servers at a hosting service center, the web browser application being used by a user remote to the hosting service center over a network via interactive compressed streaming video displayed on a client device; and

provide the user with access to at least one web page via the web browser application;

wherein interactive content of the at least one web page is displayed without perceptible latency to the at least one user on the client device responsive to a request of the user to view the at least one web page, wherein the worst case latency between the user request and the display of the interactive content of the web page is 90 milliseconds when the user is located 1500 miles and under from the hosting service center.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the web browser application has access to a faster network connection to a web site server than the user has locally.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the web browser application has access to a lower latency network connection to a web site server than the user has locally.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the servers running the web browser application have a higher performance than the client device utilized by the user locally.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein web site data is hosted locally in the hosting service center with high bandwidth, low-latency access via the web browser application.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the interactive compressed streaming video only transmits parts of the at least one web page that change with time.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein parts of the at least one web page that would not be visible to the user running a local browser unless some revealing user action of event occurs are not transmitted to the user unless such action or event occurs.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the parts of the at least one web page that would not be visible to the user include rollover images.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the interactive compressed stream in video is compressed with a latency of 80 ms or less.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the parts of the at least one web page that would not be visible to the user include parts of the page beyond the edge of the client device display window.