Systems and methods for creating and displaying web documents

• US 8,990,685 B1
• Filed: 03/31/2006
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Sandoval, Christopher Andrew, Fastenau, Lee William
• Primary Examiner(s): Queler, Adam M
• Application Number:
  US11/395,389
• Time in Patent Office: 3,280 Days
• Field of Search: 715/203, 715/864, 715/242, 715/234, 715/271, 715/208, 709/203
• US Class Current: 715/271
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A system and a method for loading and displaying content from a plurality of content sources on a user computer is disclosed. The content is placed on a web document having a first web page and at least one other web page. The contents in the first web page are loaded and displayed on the user computer and the contents of the other web pages are loaded in cache and displayed on the first web page after the contents have been fully loaded.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a plurality of content items in a user computer comprising:

accessing a web site;

receiving a web document having a content item having a first plurality of files and a hyperlink to a second file;

determining for each of the first plurality of files whether it is a fast loading file or a slow loading file based on the size of the file or the type of file from the file name extension;

loading and immediately displaying the fast loading files;

loading the slow loading files into a cache and only displaying the slow loading files when they have been fully loaded into the cache; and

loading the second file into the cache and displaying the second file upon activation of the hyperlink by the user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the fast loading files includes text content, a website logo and navigation images.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the slow loading files include files containing graphics content and audio content.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said method element of loading and immediately displaying the fast loading files comprises loading and displaying a total file size not to exceed 105 KB.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for displaying a first plurality of files and a second file accessible through a hyperlink, said computer readable medium comprising instructions to:

determine for each of the first plurality of files whether it is a fast loading file or a slow loading file based on the size of the file or the type of file from the file name extension;

load and immediately display the fast loading files;

load the slow loading files into a cache and only displaying the slow loading files when they have been fully loaded into the cache;

load the second file into the cache and not display the second file until the hyperlink is activated by a user.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein the fast loading files includes text content, a website logo and navigation images.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the slow loading files include files containing graphics content and audio content.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein said instructions to load and immediately display the fast loading files comprise instructions to load and display a collection of content items having a file size not to exceed 105 KB.

9. A user computer system comprising at least one subsystem that includes a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions that when executed cause the subsystem to:

access a web site;

receive a web document having a content item having a first plurality of files and a hyperlink to a second file;

determine for each of the first plurality of files whether it is a fast loading file or a slow loading file based on the size of the file or the type of file from the file name extension;

load and immediately display the fast loading files;

load the slow loading files into a cache and only display the slow loading files when they have been fully loaded into the cache;

load the second file into the cache and not display the second file until the hyperlink is activated by a user.

10. The computer system of claim 9 wherein the fast loading files includes text content, a website logo and navigation images.

11. The computer system of claim 10 wherein the slow loading files include files containing graphics content and audio content.

12. The computer system of claim 9 wherein said subsystem that loads the fast loading files comprises at least one subsystem that loads and displays a collection of content items having a total file size not to exceed 105 KB.