Method and apparatus for receiving display limited web page content

• US 8,850,307 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hanssen, Jan E., Vijayakumar, Rajiv Kumar, Bapst, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Queler, Adam M
• Application Number:
  US12/971,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20120159311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/238, 715/243
• US Class Current: 715/238
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements

Abstract

One embodiment comprises a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method of displaying content in a web page. One method optimizes the order of HTTP requests made during the downloading of a web page or web application comprising a plurality of objects, and receiving a first portion of the plurality of objects in a first order. Additionally, (i) a viewable section of the web page, (ii) centers of the viewable section of the web page and each of the plurality of objects, and (iii) a distance from the center of the viewable section of the web page to the center of each of the plurality of objects may be determined. Furthermore, the objects may then be prioritized based on their distance from the center of the viewable section. A request to receive at least one additional portion of the objects in a second order based on the prioritization of the objects may then be sent.

Claims

1. A mobile computing device comprising,

processing components;

memory components;

an electronic display; and

a web browser adapted to communicate with a web server by,

requesting to receive a web page hosted by the web browser and comprising a plurality of objects,

receiving a first portion of the plurality of objects in a first order;

determining a section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display;

calculating a distance from a first location in the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to a first location of each of the plurality of objects;

creating a list of the plurality of objects based on the distance from the first location of the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to the first location of each of the plurality of objects;

storing the list in the memory components; and

requesting to receive from the web server a second portion of objects in a second order corresponding to the list of the plurality of objects.

2. The mobile computing device of claim 1 wherein, creating a list of the plurality of objects based on the distance from the first location of the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to the first location of each of the plurality of objects comprises ranking the plurality of objects based on the shortest distance from the first location of the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to the first location of each of the plurality of objects.

3. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein,

at least one of the second portion of objects comprises a dynamic object referencing at least one additional object;

and

the web browser is further adapted to communicate with the web server by,

determining a first location of the at least one additional object;

calculating a distance from the first location of the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to the first location of at least one additional object;

reprioritizing the plurality of objects including the at least one additional object based on their distance from the first location of the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display; and

requesting to receive an un-received third portion of objects in an order based on the re-prioritizing the plurality of objects.

4. The mobile computing device of claim 1 wherein, the web browser is further adapted to update the list of the plurality of objects upon at least one of,

determining the web page comprises additional objects;

and

changing the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display.

5. The mobile computing device of claim 4 wherein, upon updating the list of the plurality of objects, the web browser is further adapted to communicate with the web server by, requesting to receive any un-sent objects in an order corresponding to the updated list of the plurality of objects.

6. The mobile computing device of claim 1 wherein, the web browser is further adapted to communicate with the web server by, recalculating the distance from the first location of the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to the first location of each of the plurality of objects upon changing the section of the web page that is displayed on the electronic display to a new section, wherein the new section at least partially comprises a separate portion of the web page than was displayed previously.

7. A non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method of displaying content in a web page, the method comprising,

requesting to view a web page comprising a plurality of objects;

receiving a first portion of the plurality of objects in a first order;

determining a viewable section of the web page;

calculating a center of the viewable section of the web page;

calculating a center of each of the plurality of objects;

calculating a distance from the center of the viewable section of the web page to the center of each of the plurality of objects;

prioritizing the plurality of objects based on the distance of the center of each of the plurality of objects from the center of the viewable section of the web page; and

requesting to receive at least one additional portion of the plurality of objects in a second order based on the prioritization of the plurality of objects, the second order being different than the first order.

8. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein,

the at least one additional portion of the plurality of objects comprises a plurality of un-received objects;

and

requesting to receive at least one additional portion of objects comprises,

requesting to receive an un-received object that is at least as close to the center of the viewable section of the web page as any other un-received object before requesting to receive any other un-received objects, and

successively requesting to receive each next closest object to the center of the viewable section of the web page.

9. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein, the requesting to receive at least one additional portion of objects further comprises, requesting to receive the at least one additional portion of objects based on at least one of object type and object content.

10. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein, the object content comprises advertisements and the requesting to receive at least one additional portion of objects comprises requesting to receive advertisements last.

11. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 further comprising, receiving the at least one additional portion of the plurality of objects from a web page host in the second order, wherein at least one object from the at least one additional portion of the plurality of objects comprises a dynamic object.

12. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein,

the at least one additional portion of the plurality of objects comprises a second portion of the plurality of objects;

the dynamic object references one or more other objects; and

further comprising,

determining a center of the one or more other objects;

calculating a distance from the center of the viewable section of the web page to the center of the one or more other objects;

including the distance from the center of the viewable section of the web page to the center of the one or more other objects in a reprioritization of the plurality of objects based on the distance from the center of each of the plurality of objects to the center of the viewable section of the web page; and

requesting to receive an un-received third portion of objects in an order based on the reprioritization of the plurality of objects.

13. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 further comprising,

changing the viewable section of the webpage;

dynamically recalculating the distance from the center of the viewable section of the webpage to the center of each of the plurality of objects; and

dynamically reprioritizing the remaining un-requested plurality of objects based on the distance of the center of each of the plurality of objects from the center of the viewable section of the web page.

14. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 13 wherein,

the viewable section of the webpage is changed through at least one of scrolling, panning, zooming, and orientation change of the webpage.

15. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein, receiving a first portion of the plurality of objects in a first order occurs substantially simultaneously as,

determining a viewable section of the web page;

calculating a center of the viewable section of the web page;

calculating a center of each of the plurality of objects;

calculating a distance from the center of the viewable section of the web page to the center of each of the plurality of objects; and

prioritizing the plurality of objects based on the distance of the center of each of the plurality of objects from the center of the viewable section of the web page.

16. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein,

requesting to view a web page comprises,

sending a request from a web browser, and

receiving the request at a web page host;

and

the at least one additional portion of objects comprises an un-received second portion of objects.

17. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein, the first portion of the plurality of objects comprises a first object;

and further comprising,

building a document object model tree; and

creating a render tree.

18. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein, the first portion of the plurality of objects further comprises cascaded style sheets and javascript components.

19. The non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 17 further comprising, updating the document object model tree.

20. A method requesting objects from a web server comprising,

receiving a first portion of the objects from the web server;

determining a viewable area of a web page;

calculating a center of the viewable area;

measuring a distance from the center of the viewable area to a center of each of the objects;

creating a sortable list comprising the distance from the center of each of the objects to the center of the viewable area; and

requesting a second portion of the objects from the web server in the order of the sortable list.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein,

one of the second portion of the objects comprises an object having a shortest distance from the center of the viewable area to the center of the object;

the object having the shortest distance from the center of the viewable area to the center of the object comprises the first requested object from the second portion of the objects; and

the center of each object successively requested object from the second portion of the objects comprises a distance from the center of the viewable area that is one of greater than and an equal to the distance of the center of each previously requested object from the center of the viewable area.

22. The method of claim 20 further comprising,

changing the viewable area of the web page to a new viewable area;

calculating the center of the new viewable area;

measuring the distance from the center of the new viewable area to the center of each of the objects;

resorting the list based on the distances from the center of the new viewable area to the center of each of the objects;

requesting a third portion of objects from the web server in the order that the third portion of objects are sorted in the list; and

displaying the first, second and third portions of the plurality of viewable objects.

23. The method of claim 20 wherein, the objects are received in response to an http request.