Filtering messages based on pruning profile generated from pruning profile schema

• US 8,688,857 B1
• Filed: 09/15/2010
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Michael, Constantinos
• Primary Examiner(s): Barry, Lance L
• Application Number:
  US12/882,873
• Time in Patent Office: 1,294 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/219, 709/246, 715/864
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a method of providing data by a software application is provided. The method may include retrieving a selected pruning profile. Next a result message is received from a service host based on a request message transmitted to the service host from a client. The content of the result message is then filtered based on the retrieved pruning profile. Finally, the filtered result message is sent to the client.

Claims

1. A method for providing data by a software application, comprising:

selecting a pruning profile generated from a pruning profile schema, wherein the pruning profile schema is generated by analyzing a request message transmitted to a service host from a client;

retrieving the selected pruning profile;

receiving a result message from the service host based on the request message;

filtering the content of the result message based on the retrieved pruning profile; and

sending the filtered result message to the client.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before the retrieving the selected pruning profile, receiving an identifier corresponding to the selected pruning profile; and

wherein selecting the pruning profile is based on the received identifier.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the pruning profile further comprises:

selecting the pruning profile based on a software application that generated the request message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the selection of the pruning profile is based on a software application on the client.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the request message is an Application Program Interface (API) request to the service host.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated pruning profile is tested using the pruning profile schema to determine whether the generated pruning profile can prune the request message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the result message comprises at least one field of data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the result message comprises video content or map content.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the request or result messages is binary encoded.

10. A method for providing data by a software application, comprising:

transmitting a request message to the service host from a client;

receiving a result message from the service host based on the request message, wherein the result message has a schema;

retrieving a selected pruning profile, wherein the selected pruning profile is generated based on the schema;

filtering the content of the result message based on the selected pruning profile; and

sending the filtered result message to the client.

11. A system of providing results from a networked software application, comprising:

at least one pruning profile; and

a pruner stored in a memory executing on a processor, wherein the pruner is configured to;

receive a first result message from a service host based on a request message transmitted to the service host from a client, wherein the first result message has a schema that generates a selected pruning profile included in the at least one pruning, profile;

retrieve the selected pruning profile from the at least one pruning profile;

produce a second result message based on the selected pruning profile and the first result message; and

send the second result message to the client.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the second result message contains less content than the first result message.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the pruner is further configured to:

receive an identifier corresponding to the selected pruning profile included in the at least one pruning profile; and

select the selected pruning profile from the at least one pruning profile corresponding to the received identifier.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the pruner is further configured to select the selected pruning profile based on a software application on the client.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations that provide data by a software application, comprising:

selecting a pruning profile generated from a pruning profile schema, wherein the pruning profile schema is generated by analyzing a request message transmitted to a service host from a client;

retrieving the selected pruning profile;

receiving a result message from the service host based on the request message;

filtering the content of the result message based on the retrieved pruning profile; and

sending the filtered result message to the client.