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Assisted browsing using hinting functionality

  • US 9,037,638 B1
  • Filed: 02/13/2012
  • Issued: 05/19/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of optimizing web browser page loads in a network communication system comprising:

  • transmitting, from a user computer to an optimization server, a hint request based on a user browsing indicator associated with a root hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) request for a root object;

    receiving, at the user computer from the optimization server, a set of hints associated with the root object in response to the transmission of the hint request;

    transmitting, from the user computer to a content server, the root HTTP request for the root object;

    transmitting, from the user computer to the content server, at least one child HTTP request based on at least one of the set of hints;

    wherein the optimization server is different than the content server;

    wherein the method further comprises prefetching a plurality of child objects for the root HTTP request based on the set of hints, wherein the set of hints comprises a list of child objects for the root HTTP request;

    wherein the set of hints further comprises a list of interdependencies among the plurality of child objects; and

    wherein prefetching the plurality of child objects for the root HTTP request comprises requesting a first subset of the plurality of child objects and then requesting a second subset of the plurality of child objects that is dependent upon the first subset of the plurality of child objects.

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