Remote co-browsing session management

• US 9,383,958 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Trahan, Matthew L., Taylor, Brett R., Jenkins, Jonathan A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava, Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bukhari, Sibte
• Application Number:
  US13/246,557
• Time in Patent Office: 1,743 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 715/223
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents

Abstract

A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a collaborative application session between client computing devices and content providers in conjunction with a network computing provider. Each of two or more client computing devices are associated with users. The client computing devices request access to a browsing context at a network computing provider. The network computing provider provides processing results corresponding to processed representations of requested content to the client computing devices. The client computing devices may each display the representations of the requested content in a browser. The network computing provider may further provide co-interaction data to the client computing devices for display. The co-interaction data may represent interactions of one or more users with the representations of content displayed at the users'"'"' respective client computing devices.

Claims

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

as executed by a network computing component comprising one or more computing devices configured to execute specific instructions,

initializing a network based browser software application;

providing, using the network based browser software application, browsing context information regarding a plurality of browsing contexts to a first client computing device and a second client computing device;

obtaining a request to access a browsing context of the plurality of browsing contexts from a first browser application executing on the first client computing device associated with a first user;

obtaining a request to access the browsing context from a second browser application executing on the second client computing device associated with a second user;

processing network content requested by at least one of the first or second client computing devices at the network based browser software application to generate a first representation of the requested content, wherein the requested content corresponds to a content page obtained from a content server, and wherein the first representation comprises a first processed version of the requested content;

providing, using the network based browser software application, the first representation to the first and second client computing devices, wherein the first and second browser applications executing on the first and second client computing devices are each configured to display the first representation of the requested content;

obtaining first co-interaction data from the first client computing device, wherein the first co-interaction data corresponds to an interaction by the first user on the first client computing device with at least one of one or more user interface controls of the first representation of the requested content to alter a state of the requested content;

obtaining second co-interaction data from the second client computing device, wherein the second co-interaction data corresponds to an interaction by the second user on the second client computing device with at least one of the one or more user interface controls of the first representation of the requested content to alter a state of the requested content;

processing, using the network based browser software application, the network content based at least partly on the first co-interaction data or the second co-interaction data to generate a first processing result, wherein the first processing result is generated according to a first browse session configuration based at least partly on the first client computing device, wherein the first browse session configuration specifies one or more processing actions to be executed by the network based browser software application in the generation of the first processing result to be provided to the first client computing device;

providing the first processing result to the first client computing device;

processing, using the network based browser software application, the network content based at least partly on the first co-interaction data or the second co-interaction data to generate a second processing result, wherein the second processing result is generated according to a second browse session configuration based at least partly on the second client computing device, wherein the second browse session configuration specifies one or more processing actions to be executed by the network based browser software application in the generation of the second processing result to be provided to the second client computing device; and

providing the second processing result to the second client computing device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising providing, using the network based browser software application, representations of requested content to the first and second client computing devices in accordance with one or more communication protocols.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the one or more communication protocols include at least one of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), X-Windows protocol, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) protocol, X-Windows protocol, and Remote Frame Buffer protocol.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 further comprising providing, using the network based browser software application, representations of requested content to the first and second client computing device by different communication protocols.

5. 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; and

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;

provide, using a network based browser software application, browsing context information regarding a plurality of browsing contexts to a first computing device and a second computing device;

obtain a request to access a browsing context of the plurality of browsing contexts from a first browser application executing on the first computing device associated with a first user;

provide, using the network-based browsing application, a first representation of requested content to the first computing device for display, wherein the requested content corresponds to a content page obtained from a content server;

obtain a request to access the browsing context from a second browser application executing on the second computing device associated with a second user;

provide, using the network-based browsing application, a second representation of the requested content to the second computing device for display;

obtain first co-interaction data from the first computing device, wherein the first co-interaction data corresponds to a browsing interaction by the first user on the first computing device with a user interface control of the first representation of the requested content to alter a state of the requested content;

obtain second co-interaction data from the second computing device, wherein the second co-interaction data corresponds to a browsing interaction by the second user on the second computing device with a user interface control the second representation of the requested content to alter a state of the requested content;

process, using the network based browsing application, the requested content based at least partly on the first co-interaction data or the second co-interaction data to generate a first processing result, wherein the first processing result is generated according to a first browse session configuration based at least partly on the first computing device, wherein the first browse session configuration specifies one or more processing actions to be executed by the network based browsing application in the generation of the first processing result;

provide the first processing result to the first computing device;

process, using the network based browsing application, the requested content based at least partly on the first co-interaction data or the second co-interaction data to generate a second processing result, wherein the second processing result is generated according to a second browse session configuration based at least partly on the second computing device, wherein the second browse session configuration specifies one or more processing actions to be executed by the network based browsing application in the generation of the second processing result; and

provide the second processing result to the second computing device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the network computing component is further operable to provide, using the network-based browsing application, the first representation of the requested content to the first computing device and provide, using the network-based browsing application, the second representation of the requested content to the second computing device in accordance with one or more communication protocols.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more communication protocols include at least one of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), X-Windows protocol, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) protocol, and Remote Frame Buffer protocol.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the network computing component is further operable to provide, using the network-based browsing application, the first representation of the requested content to the first computing device and provide, using the network-based browsing application, the second representation of the requested content to the second computing device in accordance with different communication protocols.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the first computing device is configured to display the first representation of the requested content at the first computing device in a first tab of the first browser application, a first window of the first browser application, or a first frame of the first browser application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first computing device is configured to display a representation of second network content associated with a second browsing context at the first computing device.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the representation of the second network content is displayed at the first computing device in a second tab of the first browser application, a second window of the first browser application, or a second frame of the first browser application.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the second computing device is prohibited from accessing the second browsing context.

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

as executed by one or more computing devices configured to execute specific instructions,

providing, using a network-based browser software application, browsing context information associated with a browsing context to a first computing device and a second computing device;

providing, with the network-based browsing application, a first representation of requested content associated with the browsing context to a first browser application executing on the first computing device, wherein the requested content corresponds to a content page;

providing, with the network-based browsing application, a second representation of the requested content associated with the browsing context to a second browser application executing on the second computing device;

obtaining first co-interaction data from the first computing device, wherein the first co-interaction data corresponds to a browsing interaction by the first user on the first computing device with a user interface control of the first representation of the requested content to alter a state of the requested content; and

obtaining second co-interaction data from the second computing device, wherein the second co-interaction data corresponds to a browsing interaction by the second user on the second computing device with a user interface control of the second representation of the requested content to alter a state of the requested content;

processing, with the network based browsing application, the requested content based at least partly on the first co-interaction data or the second co-interaction data to generate a first processing result, wherein the first processing result is generated according to a first browse session configuration based at least partly on the first computing device, wherein the first browse session configuration specifies a first processing action to be executed by the network based browsing application;

providing the first processing result to the first computing device;

processing, with the network based browsing application, the requested content based at least partly on the first co-interaction data or the second co-interaction data to generate a second processing result, wherein the second processing result is generated according to a second browse session configuration based at least partly on the second computing device, wherein the second browse session configuration specifies a second processing action to be executed by the network based browsing application; and

providing the second processing result to the second computing device.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 further comprising providing, with the network based browsing application, the first representation of the requested content to the first computing device and the second representation of the requested content to the second computing device in accordance with one or more communication protocols.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 further comprising providing, with the network based browsing application, the first representation of the requested content to the first computing device and the second representation of the requested content to the second computing device in accordance with different communication protocols.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 further comprising processing, with the network based browsing application, the requested content to generate a third representation of the requested content based on the browsing interaction with the first representation of the requested content.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 further comprising providing, with the network based browsing application, the third representation of the requested content to the second computing device.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the second computing device is configured to display the third representation of the requested content.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein the browsing interaction with the first representation of the requested content is a prohibited interaction.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein processing, with the network based browsing application, the requested content to generate the third representation of the requested content based on the browsing interaction with the first representation of the requested content includes processing the requested content to generate a third representation of the requested content based on the browsing interaction with the first representation of the requested content, excluding prohibited browsing interactions.