Remote browsing and searching

• US 9,195,750 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2014
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hayden, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US14/486,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20150006535A1
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 715/229, 715/230, 715/204, 715/242, 715/255
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/244 Grouping and aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

A remote browsing and searching process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. Responsive to a search request, the network computing provider provides search results corresponding to historical content representations associated with content previously requested by the client computing device, or search results corresponding to content representations associated with current content, or to both. The network computing and storage provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, based on navigation paths of other client computing devices, based on relationships or differences between various versions of content, or based on any number of other factors. Interactive displays may be provided to client computing devices, allowing a user to refine the search results, zoom and manipulate content representations, and view relationships, similarities, and differences in content representations.

Claims

1. A system for presenting web page search results, the system comprising:

a network computing provider in communication with a client computing device, the network computing provider comprising a network computing component executing on one or more physical network computing devices, wherein each physical network computing device comprises hardware configurable to execute specific computing instructions, the network computing component configured to;

identify a plurality of web pages based on a search request received from the client computing device;

identify a plurality of groups among the plurality of web pages based on associations among the identified plurality of web pages, wherein a first one of the plurality of groups is identified based on a first association;

cause display of a first view including a plurality of graphic objects representing the identified plurality of groups;

in response to a selection of a first graphic object in the first view, the first graphic object representing the first group of the plurality of groups of web pages, cause display of;

a second view including a plurality of graphic objects representing at least two web pages identified based on a second association within the first group; and

a visual indicator identifying the second association between at least two web pages of the first group, in visual association with at least two graphic objects representing the at least two web pages of the first group.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual indicator identifying the second association includes a graphic display indicative of a visual connection between the at least two graphic objects representing the at least two web pages of the first group.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component causes display of a visual indicator identifying the second association between the at least two web pages of the first group by causing display, in the visual indicator, of data about the second association between the at least two web pages of the first group.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual indicator identifying the second association comprises at least one of highlighting, underlining, outlining, altering color of graphic objects, or grouping the at least two graphic objects representing the at least two web pages together.

5. The system of claim 1, the network computing component is further configured, in response to an additional search request, to remove display of at least one graphic object representing a web page that does not satisfy the additional search request.

6. The system of claim 1, the network computing component is further configured, in response to selection of a graphic object, to cause display of a plurality of graphic objects representing historical versions of a web page corresponding to the selected graphic object.

7. The system of claim 6, the network computing component is further configured to cause display of a visual indicator representative of differences or similarities between the historical versions of the web page corresponding to the selected graphic object.

8. A computer-implemented method for presenting network resource search results, the method comprising:

under the control of a network computing component executing on one or more physical computing components of a network computing provider, the physical computing components configured to execute specific instructions,

identifying a plurality of network resources based on a search request;

identifying a plurality of network resource groups among the plurality of network resources based on associations among the identified plurality of network resources;

identifying a subgroup within the identified plurality of network resource groups based on a first association among the identified plurality of network resource groups;

causing display of a plurality of graphic objects representing network resources of the subgroup; and

causing display of a visual indicator between two displayed graphic objects of the plurality of graphic objects, the visual indicator identifying a second association between at least two network resources of the subgroup corresponding to the two displayed graphic objects.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein causing display of a visual indicator comprises:

in response to a request for a view representative of the plurality of graphic objects representing network resources of the subgroup, causing display of a view of the plurality of graphic objects corresponding to the subgroup; and

causing display of the visual indicator between the two displayed graphic objects of the plurality of graphic objects, the visual indicator identifying the second association between the at least two network resources of the subgroup.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein causing display of a visual indicator comprises, causing display of a visual connection between the two displayed graphic objects representing the at least two network resources of the subgroup.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising causing display of data about the second association, in association with the visual indicator, wherein the data corresponds to a property of the subgroup.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the second association represents at least one of a subject matter, browsing history association, or social media association.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising, in response to an additional search request, removing, from display, a graphic object representing a network resource that does not satisfy the additional search request.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein causing display of the plurality of graphic objects comprises, causing at least two graphic objects to be displayed in at least two separated portions of a video display, respectively, based on two different subgroups corresponding to network resources associated with the least two graphic objects.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising, in response to selection of a graphic object, causing display of at least one previous version of a network resource corresponding to the selected graphic object.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 further comprising causing display of a visual indicator representative of differences or similarities between the at least one previous version and the selected network resource.

17. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer system, configures the computer system to perform operations comprising:

identifying a plurality of network resources based on a search request;

identifying a plurality of network resource groups among the plurality of network resources based on associations among the identified plurality of network resources;

identifying a subgroup within the identified plurality of network resource groups based on a first association among the identified plurality of network resource groups;

causing display of a plurality of graphic objects representing network resources of the subgroup; and

causing display of a visual indicator between two displayed graphic objects of the plurality of graphic objects, the visual indicator identifying a second association between at least two network resources of the subgroup corresponding to the two displayed graphic objects.

18. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 17, wherein causing display of a visual indicator comprises, in response to a request for a zoomed view of the subgroup, causing display of the visual indicator identifying the second association between at least two web pages of the subgroup in association with the two displayed graphic objects.

19. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 17, the operations further comprising, in response to an additional search request, extinguishing a graphic object representing a web page that does not satisfy the additional search request.

20. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 17, the operations further comprising, in response to selection of a graphic object, causing display of a plurality of graphic objects representing historical versions of a network resource corresponding to the selected graphic object.