Interface tab generation

• US 9,367,211 B1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Turner, Andrew Russell
• Primary Examiner(s): Barrett, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US13/672,597
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3433 for load management allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/504 Resource capping
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Technology is described for generating an interface tab in an application. The method may include receiving an instruction to create an interface tab in the application. Another operation may be defining computing resources that are to be applied to loading of the interface tab and page content. The interface tab and the page content may be loaded using the computing resources defined.

Claims

1. A method for preparing an interface tab in a web browser, comprising:

receiving a request to create the interface tab in the web browser, using a processor;

associating page content with the interface tab;

defining a limit on computing resource usage to be applied to loading of the interface tab and page content, using the processor, which limit is less than available computing resources, the limit being defined as a percentage of the available computing resources;

creating the interface tab using the limit on the computing resource usage defined; and

redefining the limit on computing resource usage upon selection of the interface tab via a graphical user interface;

categorizing content objects in the page content of the interface tab into smaller content objects and larger content objects;

determining the limit on computing resource usage for loading the page content into the interface tab; and

visually loading the smaller content objects in the graphical user interface followed by the larger content objects when the available computing resources are limited according to the percentage of the available computing resources defined.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein defining the limit on the computing resource usage further comprises creating an initial instance of the interface tab in a memory device and applying no computing resources toward loading the page content until the interface tab is selected.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein defining the limit on the computing resource usage further comprises applying a predefined network bandwidth limit and predefined processor allocation to loading of page content.

4. The method as in claim 3, wherein the processor allocation is processor time slices.

5. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

determining available processing power for the processor;

checking whether a threshold amount of processing power is available to load the page content into the interface tab;

loading the page content into the interface tab when the threshold amount of processing power is available; and

creating the interface tab without loading the page content when the threshold amount of processing power is unavailable.

6. A method for generating an interface tab in an application, comprising:

receiving an instruction to create the interface tab in the application;

defining limited computing resource usage that is to be applied to loading of the interface tab and page content, using a processor, the limited computing resource usage being defined as a percentage of available computing resources;

loading the interface tab and the page content using the limited computing resource usage defined, using the processor, wherein loading the interface tab and the page content comprises;

categorizing content objects in the page content of the interface tab into smaller objects and larger objects;

determining that the percentage of limited computing resources are available for loading the page content into the interface tab; and

visually loading the smaller content objects in a graphical user interface followed by the larger content objects when the available computing resources are limited and according to the percentage of available computing resources defined;

receiving a selection of the interface tab; and

loading the page content at a computing resource usage rate greater than the limited computing resource usage defined subsequent to receiving the selection of the interface tab via the graphical user interface.

7. The method as in claim 6, wherein loading the interface tab and the page content using the limited computing resource usage further comprises, applying no computing resources to an initial loading of the page content until the interface tab is selected.

8. The method as in claim 6, wherein the limited computing resource usage includes a limited network bandwidth or a limited processing load used to load the page content.

9. The method as in claim 6, wherein the limited computing resource usage includes limited memory device storage to store the page content until the interface tab is selected.

10. The method as in claim 6, further comprising loading the page content into the interface tab when a threshold amount of processing power is available to load the page content into the interface tab using the limited computing resource usage.

11. The method as in claim 6, further comprising:

hiding a subsequent interface tab until an active interface tab has been unselected or closed, wherein hiding the subsequent interface tab is a result of the limited computing resource usage defined;

displaying the subsequent interface tab when the active interface tab is unselected or closed; and

loading page content of the subsequent interface tab at a computing resource usage rate greater than the limited computing resource usage defined after the active interface tab is unselected or closed.

12. The method as in claim 6, further comprising a tab queue having a plurality of hidden interface tabs which are hidden as a result of the limited computing resource usage defined.

13. The method as in claim 12, further comprising applying differing rates of computing resources to the hidden interface tabs based on an interface tab'"'"'s priority rank in the tab queue.

14. The method as in claim 6, wherein the interface tab comprises a plurality of interface tabs, the method further comprising applying a priority rank to the plurality of interface tabs based on a graphical arrangement of the interface tabs, wherein the limited computing resource usage is defined separately for each of the plurality of interface tabs based on respective priority ranks for the plurality of interface tabs.

15. The method as in claim 6, wherein receiving the instruction to create the interface tab further comprises receiving a request from a user to create the interface tab based on the user selecting a URL (universal resource locator).

16. The method as in claim 6, further comprising waiting to load the page content for the interface tab until a network connection of specific cost or network bandwidth is available.

17. The method as in claim 6, further comprising sending the interface tab to a second application to be loaded and waiting to load page content associated with the interface tab at the second application until a scheduled time input by a user via the graphical user interface.

18. The method as in claim 6, further comprising:

sending the interface tab to a second application; and

loading the interface tab in the second application using the limited computing resource usage defined.

19. The method as in claim 6, further comprising allocating a priority weighting of computing resources to interface tabs based on a priority weighting of interface tabs.

20. The method as in claim 6, further comprising:

categorizing the content objects in the page content of the interface tab into object types;

loading object types from categories that use reduced network bandwidth for the interface tab, wherein the object types that use reduced network bandwidth include at least one of text or small images; and

applying no network bandwidth to object types that use an increased amount of network bandwidth until the interface tab has been selected, wherein the object types that use an increased amount of network bandwidth include audio content and video content.

21. The method as in claim 6, further comprising:

hiding a subsequent interface tab until computing resource usage falls below a defined threshold;

displaying the subsequent interface tab when the computing resource usage falls below the defined threshold; and

loading page content of the subsequent interface tab after the subsequent interface tab is displayed.

22. A system for creating interface tabs, comprising:

a multiple data source application executing using a processor and memory device;

a plurality of data sources connected to the multiple data source application, the interface tabs being associated with the plurality of data sources;

a resource measurement module to measure computing resources available for interface tab creation; and

a tab creation module, associated with the multiple data source application, to create an interface tab and load page content from at least one of the plurality of data sources into the interface tab using a predefined limit on computing resources, the predefined limit being a percentage of available computing resources less than the available computing resources and which is variable based on a presence of other created interface tabs;

wherein the tab creation module creates the interface tab and loads the page content based on the predefined limit on computing resources, based on the presence of the other created interface tabs, and further based on user interaction with the interface tab via a graphical user interface, the tab creation module being further configured to;

categorize content objects in the page content of the interface tab into smaller objects and larger objects and load the smaller content objects in the graphical user interface followed by the larger content objects according to the percentage of available computing resources defined.

23. The system as in claim 22, wherein no computing resources are applied to loading page content from creating the interface tab until the interface tab is selected.

24. The system as in claim 22, wherein the resource measurement module measures defined computing resources including memory device resources, processing resources, display screen resources or network bandwidth resources.

25. The system as in claim 22, wherein the predefined computing resources includes loading page content into background interface tabs using limited network bandwidth and processor power.

26. The system as in claim 22, further comprising checking whether a threshold amount of processing resources are available for loading the page content into the interface tab before loading of page content begins.

27. The system as in claim 22, further comprising checking whether a threshold amount of network bandwidth is available for downloading of the page content into the interface tab.

28. A method for transferring an interface tab, comprising:

receiving a first request to create a first interface tab in a web browser, using a processor in a first computing device;

receiving a second request to send the first interface tab and a network page reference to a second computing device across a network;

sending the second request to create a second interface tab configured to load page content identified by the network page reference, the second interface tab being in a second web browser of a second computing device across the network;

creating the second interface tab, including loading the page content, in the second web browser of the second computing device using a predefined limit on computing resources defined as a percentage of available computing resources;

categorizing content objects in the page content of the second interface tab into smaller objects and larger objects;

loading the smaller content objects in a graphical user interface followed by the larger content objects according to the percentage of available computing resources defined; and

loading the page content in the second interface tab using greater than the predefined limit on computing resources upon selection of the second interface tab via the graphical user interface at the second computing device.

29. The method as in claim 28, wherein receiving the second request to send the first interface tab further comprises receiving the second request via a graphical user interface object in proximity to the first interface tab to send the first interface tab to the second computing device.

30. The method as in claim 29, wherein the graphical user interface object is a pop-up menu, a tooltip, a menu item or a graphical button.

31. The method as in claim 28, further comprising:

checking computing resources on the second computing device upon request from the first computing device;

determining a predefined amount of computing resources that are available to load the interface tab; and

instructing the second web browser to apply a predefined limit on computing resource usage on the second computing device to load the interface tab and associated page content.

32. A method for generating a child window interface in an application, comprising:

receiving an instruction to create the child window interface in the application;

defining limited computing resource usage that is to be applied to loading of the child window interface and page content, using a processor, the limited computing resource usage being defined as a percentage of available computing resources; and

loading the child window interface and the page content using the limited computing resource usage defined, using the processor, until the child window interface is selected, wherein loading the child window interface and the page content comprises;

categorizing content objects in the page content of the child window interface into smaller objects and larger objects; and

loading the smaller content objects in the child window interface followed by the larger content objects according to the percentage of available computing resources defined; and

loading the page content using greater than the limited computing resource usage defined after the child window interface is selected.