Shared browsing sessions

• US 9,330,188 B1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hayden, Andrew, DeSantis, Peter N., Taylor, Brett R., Jenkins, Jonathan A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hwang, Joon H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alriyashi, Abdulkader M
• Application Number:
  US13/335,843
• Time in Patent Office: 1,594 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/203, 709/248, 709/227, 709/228
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The generation and management of shared session information between the client computing device and the network computing provider are provided. The shared session information can correspond to a specification of a set of network resources accessed by the client computing device and the preservation of browse session information associated with the previous access of the set of network resources. The shared session information is utilized by one or more client computing devices to access and recreate a browse session corresponding to the set of network resources.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for remote session browsing comprising:

obtaining, by a network computing component, a first network resource from a content provider based on a first browse session request from a client-based browser application hosted at a client computing device;

determining, by the network computing component, a remote session browsing configuration associated with the first network resource, wherein the remote session browsing configuration identifies a subset of a plurality of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component for displaying the first network resource at the client computing device;

processing, by a network-based browser application hosted at the network computing component, the first network resource to generate a processing result corresponding to the determined remote session browsing configuration,

wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of the first network resource, and

wherein the processing result is generated by performing, by the network-based browser application hosted at the network computing component, the subset of the plurality of processing actions identified by the remote session browsing configuration;

providing, by the network computing component, the processing result to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is configured to perform, by the client-based browser application, at least one of the plurality of processing actions which was not performed by the network-based browser application for displaying the first network resource at the client computing device; and

providing, by the network computing component, a shared session information which comprises information to identify the first network resource and browse session information associated with the first network resource, wherein the browse session information comprises at least part of information communicated between the network-based browser application and the client-based browser application in accordance with the remote session browsing configuration; and

receiving a second browse session request from the client-based browser application, the second browse session request including at least a request for the first network resource, wherein the second browse session request is based, at least in part, on the shared session information, and wherein at least one network resource requested in the second browse session request is not requested in the first browse session request.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the remote session browsing configuration is a client remote session browsing configuration or an offline remote session browsing configuration, and wherein a communication protocol identified by the client remote session browsing configuration is different from a communication protocol identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the communication protocol identified by the client remote session browsing configuration and the communication protocol identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration includes an HTML protocol, a Remote Desktop protocol, a Virtual Network Computing protocol, a Remote Frame Buffer protocol, or an X-Windows protocol.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the shared session information includes publishing a shared session identifier, the shared session identifier accessible by a plurality of client computing devices.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the shared session information corresponds to an identifier, the identifier based on identifiers associated with a plurality of network resources accessed by the client computing device.

6. A system for remote session browsing comprising:

one or more computer processors;

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

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 first request for a first network resource from a client-based browser application hosted at a client computing device;

determine a remote session browsing configuration associated with the first network resource, wherein the remote session browsing configuration identifies a subset of a plurality of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component for displaying the first network resource at the client computing device;

cause a network-based browser application hosted at the network computing component to process the first network resource to generate a processing result corresponding to the determined remote session browsing configuration, wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of the first network resource, and wherein the processing result is generated by performing, by the network-based browser application hosted at the network computing component, the subset of the plurality of processing actions identified by the remote session browsing configuration;

transmit the processing result to the client computing device in accordance with the remote session browsing configuration, wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of at least one of the first network resource and content associated with the first network resource to be displayed at the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is configured to perform, by the client-based browser application, at least one of the plurality of processing actions which was not performed by the network-based browser application for displaying the first network resource at the client computing device;

generate shared session information, wherein the shared session information comprises information to identify the first network resource and further comprises browser session information, and wherein the browser session information comprises at least part of information communicated between the network-based browser application and the client-based browser application in accordance with the remote session browsing configuration;

obtain a subsequent request for the first network resource and a second network resource;

in response to the subsequent request, enable a new browsing session for the first network resource and the second network resource based at least in part on the browser session information in the shared session information; and

transmit processing results corresponding to the subsequent request to the client computing device, wherein the processing results correspond to the first processing result.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the client computing device is configured to perform the one or more processing actions identified by the remote session browsing configuration.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine a client remote session browsing configuration, wherein the client remote session browsing configuration identifies a set of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component to generate the processing result.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the client remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource based on a resource data format, a resource content type, a resource size, resource processing requirements, resource latency requirements, a number or type of interactive elements, a resource security risk, historical resource usage data, resource usage predictions, an associated user preference, an associated network address, an associated network domain, historical content provider usage data, or content provider configuration data.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration includes at least one shared processing action performed during generation of the representation of content.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the shared session information is associated with a communication protocol including at least one of an HTML protocol, a Remote Desktop protocol, a Virtual Network Computing protocol, a Remote Frame Buffer protocol, and an X-Windows protocol.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine a second remote session browsing configuration, wherein the second remote session browsing configuration identifies a set of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component to generate one or more content representations corresponding to the first network resource responsive to the subsequent request corresponding to the shared session information.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the second remote session browsing configuration associated with the subsequent request corresponding to the shared session information is different from a remote session browsing configuration previously associated with the first network resource.

14. A computer-implemented method for remote session browsing comprising:

obtaining, by a network computing component, a request for a first network resource from a client-based browser application hosted at a client computing device;

determining, by the network computing component, a remote session browsing configuration associated with the first network resource, wherein the remote session browsing configuration identifies a subset of a plurality of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component for displaying the first network resource at the client computing device;

processing, by a network-based browser application hosted at the network computing component, the first network resource to generate a processing result corresponding to the determined remote session browsing configuration, wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of the first network resource, and wherein the processing result is generated by performing, by the network-based browser application hosted at the network computing component, the subset of the plurality of processing actions identified by the remote session browsing configuration;

providing, by the network computing component, the processing result to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is configured to perform, by the client-based browser application, at least one of the plurality of processing actions which was not performed by the network-based browser application for displaying the first network resource at the client computing device;

generating, by the network computing component, shared session information corresponding to the first network resource, wherein the shared session information includes a first browser session information, wherein the first browser session information comprises at least part of information communicated between the network-based browser application and the client-based browser application in accordance with the remote session browsing configuration;

transmitting, by the network computing component, the shared session information; and

in response to a second request corresponding to the shared session information, enabling a new browsing session for at least one of the first network resource and a second network resource based at least in part on corresponding browser session information in the shared session information, wherein the corresponding browser session information comprises at least part of information communicated previously between the network-based browser application and the client-based browser application in accordance with a remote session browsing configuration, and wherein the second request includes at least a request for the second network resource.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 further comprising transmitting a processing result to the client computing device, wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of at least one of the second network resource and content associated with the second network resource to be displayed at the client computing device.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein transmitting the shared session information includes transmitting a shared session identifier.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein transmitting the shared session information includes publishing a shared session identifier, the shared session identifier accessible by a plurality of client computing devices.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein obtaining the request for the first and second network resource corresponds to obtaining information based on a transmitted request for the first and second network resource.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 further comprising obtaining a request to modify shared session information and modifying information corresponding to at least one of the first or second network resources.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein obtaining the request for the first and second network resource corresponds to obtaining a request responsive to manipulation of a control on an interface.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein generating shared session information corresponding to the first network resource includes accessing previously generated session information.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 further comprising processing the shared session information prior to transmitting the shared session information.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 22, wherein processing the shared session information includes removing duplicate resources.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 22, wherein processing the shared session information includes adding at least one resource from shared session information.