Historical browsing session management

• US 8,849,802 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hamilton, James R., Taylor, Brett R.
• Primary Examiner(s): LU, KUEN S
• Application Number:
  US13/246,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080421A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 707/722
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing and storage provider. A client computing device provides a search request to a network computing and storage provider. Responsive to the search request, the network computing and storage provider provides search results corresponding to historical content representations associated with content previously requested by the client computing device or a user associated with the client computing device. The network computing and storage provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, or based on any number of other factors.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining a historical content representation from a network computing provider, wherein the historical content representation comprises a historical version of a content item previously requested by a client computing device, and wherein the historical content representation includes information corresponding to a historical navigation path including the content item previously requested by the client computing device;

obtaining a search request from the client computing device, wherein the search request from the client computing device is associated with one or more search terms; and

providing, to the client computing device, search results based on the search terms, wherein the search results include at least the historical content representation.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content item previously requested by the client computing device comprises a Web page.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the search terms include a segment of text, a date, a content type, a browse session identifier, a user identifier, a browser identifier, a client computing device identifier, or a tag.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a second representation of the content item previously requested by the client computing device is displayed at the client computing device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to the historical navigation path includes information associated with a reference accessed by the client computing device or a network resource including a reference accessed by the client computing device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the search results correspond to content included in the historical navigation path.

7. A system for managing content comprising:

one or more computer processors;

at least one computer memory accessible by at least one of the one or more computer processors; and

a network computing component comprising an executable software module executed by the one or more computer processors, wherein the network computing component is operable to;

obtain a search request from a client computing device, wherein the search request from the client computing device is associated with one or more search terms; and

provide search results corresponding to one or more historical content representations to the client computing device, the search results based at least partly on the one or more search terms,

wherein each of the one or more historical content representations is associated with information corresponding to a historical navigation path uniquely associated with the client computing device, the historical navigation path including a content item corresponding to the respective each of the one or more historical content representations.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the information corresponding to the historical navigation path includes an identifier identifying at least one of a reference followed by the client computing device to access a content item corresponding to the historical content representation and a network resource including the reference followed by the client computing device.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the search results include search results corresponding to current network content.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more historical content representations correspond to content items included in a historical navigation path associated with a first historical content representation.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the content item included in a historical navigation path associated with a first historical content representation comprises a content item included in the historical navigation path subsequent to the first historical content representation.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more historical content representations correspond to one or more historical versions of a first network resource.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the search results based on a search request from the client computing device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the search results based in part on at least one of a segment of text, a date, a content type, a browse session identifier, a user identifier, a browser identifier, a client computing device identifier, and a tag.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the search results based at least in part on a color composition of each of the one or more historical content representations.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the search results based at least in part on a number of times that content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations has been requested.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the search results based at least in part on an amount of time spent viewing content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations.

18. A computer-implemented method for managing content comprising:

obtaining search request from a client computing device, wherein the search request from the client computing device is associated with one or more search terms; and

providing, based at least partly on the one or more search terms, search results corresponding to one or more historical content representations to the client computing device, wherein each of the one or more historical content representations is associated with information corresponding to a historical navigation path including the respective each of the one or more historical content representations, the historical navigation path uniquely associated with the client computing device.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the information corresponding to the historical navigation path includes an identifier identifying at least one of a reference followed by the client computing device to access content corresponding to the historical content representation and a network resource including the reference followed by the client computing device.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the search results include search results corresponding to current network content.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the one or more historical content representations correspond to content included in a historical navigation path associated with a first historical content representation.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the content included in a historical navigation path associated with a first historical content representation comprises content included in the historical navigation path prior to the first historical content representation.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the one or more historical content representations correspond to one or more historical versions of a first network resource.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 further comprising determining the search results based at least in part on an association between a first advertisement and each of the one or more historical content representations.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 further comprising determining the search results based at least in part on at least one of a physical and a logical location associated with a request for content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations.

26. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 further comprising determining the search results based at least in part on a number of times that content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations has been requested.

27. The computer-implemented method of claim 26 further comprising determining the search results based at least in part on a number of times that content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations has been requested by at least one of the client computing device and a user associated with the client computing device.

28. The computer-implemented method of claim 26 further comprising determining the search results based at least in part on a number of times that content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations has been requested by users not associated with the client computing device.

29. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 further comprising determining the search results based at least in part on an amount of time spent viewing content corresponding to each of the one or more historical content representations.