Assisted hybrid mobile browser

• US 8,468,130 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2011
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Otello Corp. ASA
• Original Assignee: Skyfire Labs Inc. (Otello Corp. ASA)
• Inventors: Bhandari, Nitin, Swenson, Erik R., Benson, Geoffrey Dale, Paul, Ishika, Marzano, James, Heilpern, Jaime, Oberhofer, Robert, Guzewicz, Michael, Kumar, Vijay
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TRUONG V
• Application Number:
  US13/079,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20110289108A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 707/621
• US Class Current: 707/621
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV

Abstract

A system and a method are disclosed for identifying video files on a webpage and streaming video files to a client device. A server receives browsing data including uniform resource locator for a webpage and identifies missing videos on the webpage. The server identifies a source file for the missing videos including identifying a location for each missing video. The server retrieves a thumbnail for each missing video and provides it to a client device. Additionally, the server transcodes the video file responsive to a user input provided by a user. The transcoded video is streamed to the client device.

Claims

1. A method for identifying videos missing from an optimized version of a target webpage, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server, browsing data from the client device including a destination uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the optimized version of the target webpage, the optimized version of the target webpage optimized for a display of a mobile device;

identifying a URL corresponding to a non-optimized version of the target webpage, the non-optimized version not optimized for the display of the mobile device;

identifying videos missing from the optimized version of the target webpage that are present in the non-optimized version of the target webpage;

identifying a source file for a given missing video on the non-optimized version of the target webpage by identifying a missing URL in the optimized version of the webpage, where the missing URL is present in the non-optimized version and associated with the given missing video;

retrieving a thumbnail for representing the given video to display on the client device;

sending the thumbnail to the client device;

transcoding the source file corresponding to the given missing video responsive to receiving an indication of a user input command selecting the given video and encoding parameters based on the client device capability; and

streaming the transcoded source file corresponding to the missing video to the client device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying missing videos further comprises identifying plugins on the target webpage and pruning plugins that do not correspond to video content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving a thumbnail for representing the given video comprises capturing an image from the source file corresponding to the video or retrieving an image from a public API corresponding to the video.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein indentifying the URL corresponding to the non-optimized version of the target webpage comprises:

extracting keywords from the optimized version of the target webpage;

performing a search based on the extracted keywords; and

retrieving content based on the search results.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the retrieved content includes video source files and social networking system content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein transcoding the source file comprises identifying encoding parameters, the encoding parameters including the client device capabilities and a communications network capability.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the transcoding the source file further comprises:

rendering source file data; and

capturing video frames from the rendered source file data to generate the transcoded source file.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein capturing video frames comprises using a screen scraping method.

9. A system for identifying videos missing from an optimized version of a target webpage, the system comprising:

a computer processor for executing executable computer program code;

a computer-readable storage medium containing the executable computer program code for performing a method comprising;

receiving, at a server, browsing data from the client device including a destination uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the optimized version of the target webpage, the optimized version of the target webpage optimized for a display of a mobile device;

identifying a URL corresponding to a non-optimized version of the target webpage, the non-optimized version not optimized for the display of the mobile device;

identifying videos missing from the optimized version of the webpage that are present in the non-optimized version of the target webpage;

identifying a source file for a given missing video on the non-optimized version of the target webpage by identifying a missing URL in the optimized version of the webpage, where the missing URL is present in the non-optimized version and associated with the given missing video;

retrieving a thumbnail for representing the given video to display on the client device;

sending the thumbnail to the client device;

transcoding the source file corresponding to the given missing video responsive to receiving an indication of a user input command selecting the given video and encoding parameters based on the client device capability; and

streaming transcoded source file corresponding to the missing video to the client device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein identifying missing videos further comprises identifying plugins on the target webpage and pruning plugins that do not correspond to video content.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein retrieving a thumbnail for the video comprises capturing an image from the source file corresponding to the video or retrieving an image from a public API corresponding to the video.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein indentifying the URL corresponding to the non-optimized version of the target webpage comprises:

extracting keywords from the optimized version of the target webpage;

performing a search based on the extracted keywords; and

retrieving content based on the search results.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the retrieved content includes video source files and social networking system content.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein transcoding the source file comprises identifying encoding parameters, the encoding parameters including the client device capabilities and a communications network capability.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the transcoding the source file further comprises:

rendering source file date, and

capturing video frames from the rendered source file data to generate the transcoded source file.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein capturing video frames comprises using a screen scraping method.

17. A computer program product for identifying video files missing from an optimized version of a target webpage, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer program code for:

receiving, at a server, browsing data from the client device including a destination uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the optimized version of the target webpage, the optimized version of the target webpage optimized for a display of a mobile device;

identifying a URL corresponding to a non-optimized version of the target webpage, the non-optimized version not optimized for the display of the mobile device;

identifying videos missing from the optimized version of the target webpage that are present in the non-optimized version of the target webpage;

identifying a source file for a given missing video on the non-optimized version of the target webpage by identifying a missing URL in the optimized version of the webpage, where the missing URL is present in the non-optimized version and associated with the given missing video;

retrieving a thumbnail for representing the given video to display on the client device;

sending the thumbnail to the client device;

transcoding the source file corresponding to the given missing video responsive to receiving an indication of a user input command selecting the given video and encoding parameters based on the client device capability; and

streaming the transcoded source file corresponding to the missing video to the client device.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein identifying missing videos further comprises identifying plugins on the target webpage and pruning plugins that do not correspond to video content.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17 retrieving a thumbnail for the video comprises capturing an image from the source file corresponding to the video or retrieving an image from a public API corresponding to the video.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein indentifying the URL corresponding to the non-optimized version of the target webpage comprises:

extracting keywords from the optimized version of the target webpage;

performing a search based on the extracted keywords; and

retrieving content based on the search results.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the retrieved content includes video source files and social networking system content.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein transcoding the source file comprises identifying encoding parameters, the encoding parameters including the client device capabilities and a communications network capability.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein transcoding the source file further comprises:

rendering source file date; and

capturing video frames from the rendered source file data to generate the transcoded source file.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 23, wherein capturing video frames comprises using a screen scraping method.