Remote browsing and searching

• US 9,336,321 B1
• Filed: 01/26/2012
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• 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): Madamba, Glenford
• Application Number:
  US13/359,190
• Time in Patent Office: 1,566 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 707/3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A remote browsing and searching process is directed to the 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 Responsive to a search request, the network computing provider provides search results corresponding to historical content representations associated with content previously requested by the client computing device, search results corresponding to content representations associated with current content, or to data about changes in the content. The network computing provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, navigation paths of other client computing devices, 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 searching previously accessed network resources, 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;

retrieve a previously accessed network resource satisfying a search request received from the client computing device, the search request comprising one or more search terms, wherein the client computing device accessed the previously accessed network resource during a previous browsing session in which the client computing device also accessed one or more contextual network resources from different content servers than the previously accessed network resource;

retrieve a first contextual network resource of the one or more contextual network resources, wherein the first contextual network resource is retrieved based at least on the first contextual network resource being accessed during the same previous browsing session as the first previously accessed network resource; and

cause display of a representation of the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request and a representation of the first contextual network resource.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the previously accessed network resource comprises one of a web page, image, video, animation, applet, or document.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is configured to retrieve a plurality of previously accessed network resources satisfying the search request, wherein the plurality of previously accessed network resources are versions of a single network resource, each of the versions from a different time.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the search terms comprise a date range, and wherein the previously accessed network resource and the first contextual network resource were requested by the client computing device during the date range.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein representations of the previously accessed network resource and the one or more contextual network resources were stored during the previous browsing session in which the previously accessed network resource and one or more contextual network resources were originally requested by the client computing device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the representation of the previously accessed network resource is caused to be displayed substantially adjacent to representation of the first contextual network resource.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the representation of the first contextual network resource is caused to be displayed as a smaller size than the representation of the previously accessed network resource.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the search request comprises one or more search terms describing a visual aspect of the previously accessed network resource, wherein the visual aspect comprises at least one of an image, video, color, or layout of the previously accessed network resource.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the search request comprises a search term limiting the results to one of landing pages or detail pages, wherein a landing page comprises a default web page presented to a client computing device when no detail page is requested.

10. A computer-implemented method for searching previously accessed network resources, 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,

retrieving a previously accessed network resource satisfying a search request received from a client computing device, wherein the client computing device accessed the previously accessed network resource during a previous browsing session in which the client computing device also accessed one or more contextual network resources from different content servers than the previously accessed network resource, and wherein representations of the previously accessed network resource and each of the one or more contextual network resources are stored in an electronic data store in communication with the network computing component;

retrieving a first contextual network resource of the one or more contextual network resources, wherein the first contextual network resource is retrieved based at least on the first contextual network resource being accessed during the same previous browsing session as the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request; and

causing display of a representation of the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request and a representation of the first contextual network resource.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the previously-accessed network resource comprises at least one of a web page, image, video, animation, applet, or document.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the search request relates to a visual aspect of the previously accessed network resource, and wherein the visual aspect comprises at least one of an image, video, color, or layout of the previously-accessed network resource.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the network computing component uses software analysis of a rendered network resource to determine the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the network computing component analyzes data about the visual contents of previously accessed network resources to determine the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the search request comprises a date range, and wherein the retrieved previously accessed network resource and first contextual network resources were requested by the client computing device during the date range.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 10, wherein the search request comprises a search term limiting the results to one of landing pages or detail pages, wherein a landing page comprises the default web page presented to a client computing device when no detail page is requested.

17. Non-transitory computer storage having stored thereon computer-executable instructions configured to execute a process on a network computing component comprising one or more computing devices, the process comprising:

retrieving, from an electronic data store in communication with the network computing component, a representation of a previously accessed network resource satisfying a search request received from a client computing device, wherein the client computing device accessed the previously accessed network resource during a previous browsing session in which the client computing device also accessed one or more contextual network resources from different content servers than the previously accessed network resource, and wherein representations of the previously accessed network resource and each of the one or more contextual network resources are stored in the electronic data store;

retrieving, from the electronic data store, a representation of a first contextual network resource of the one or more contextual network resources, wherein the representation of the first contextual network resource is retrieved based at least on the first contextual network resource being accessed during the same previous browsing session as the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request; and

transmit, to the client computing device, a response to the search request, the response comprising the representation of the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request and the representation of the first contextual network resource.

18. The non-transitory computer storage of claim 17, wherein the previously-accessed network resource comprises at least one of a web page, image, video, animation, applet, or document.

19. The non-transitory computer storage of claim 17, wherein the search request relates to a visual aspect of the previously accessed network resource, and wherein the visual aspect comprises at least one of an image, video, color, or layout of the previously-accessed network resource.

20. The non-transitory computer storage of claim 17, wherein the network computing component uses software analysis of a rendered network resource to determine the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request.

21. The non-transitory computer storage of claim 17, wherein the network computing component analyzes data about the visual contents of previously accessed network resources to determine the previously accessed network resource satisfying the search request.

22. The non-transitory computer storage of claim 17, wherein the search request comprises a date range, and wherein the retrieved previously accessed network resource and first contextual network resources were accessed by the client computing device during the date range.

23. The non-transitory computer storage of claim 17, wherein the search request comprises a search term limiting the results to one of landing pages or detail pages, wherein a landing page comprises the default web page presented to a client computing device when no detail page is requested.