Remote browsing session management

• US 9,621,406 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2011
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Trahan, Matthew L., Gigliotti, Samuel S., Jenkins, Jonathan A., Taylor, Brett R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bilgrami, Asghar
• Application Number:
  US13/174,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007100A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,112 Days
• Field of Search: 709203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable

Abstract

A browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a browse session at a network computing and storage provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing and storage provider. The browse session instance may correspond to requested network content. The network computing and storage provider determines a browse configuration. The browse configuration may identify a communication protocol and various processing actions. The network computing and storage provider retrieves the requested content through an instantiated network browse session instance, and performs a first set of processing actions to generate a processing result. The processing result may be provided to the client computing device for display, including performing a second set of processing actions on the processing result at the client computing device.

Claims

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

obtaining, by a server computing device executing a server based browser software application in communication with a separate client based browser software application executing remotely from the server computing device, a network resource from a content provider based on an identifier of the network resource included in a browse session request from a client computing device, wherein the server computing device is separate from the content provider, wherein the network resource references one or more embedded resources, wherein at least one of the network resource and the one or more embedded resources can be processed with a plurality of processing actions, and wherein the server based browser software application and client based browser software application are both operable to perform the plurality of processing actions to process network resources for display;

determining, by the server based browser software application, one or more remote session browsing configurations corresponding to the browse session request based on at least one of the network resource and the one or more embedded resources, wherein at least one of the one or more remote session browsing configurations are determined based at least partly on a network resource processing capability of the client computing device, wherein each of the one or more remote session browsing configurations identifies at least a first set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions to be performed by the server based browser software application, and a second set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions to be performed by the client based browser software application, and wherein the first set of processing actions and the second set of processing actions together comprise the plurality of processing actions;

processing, by the server based browser software application, the network resource and the one or more embedded resources to generate at least one processing result corresponding to each of the determined remote session browsing configurations, wherein each of the at least one processing results corresponds to a representation of a respective processed network resource or processed one or more embedded resources, and wherein each of the at least one processing results are generated by performing the first set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions identified by the corresponding determined remote session browsing configuration at the server computing device; and

providing, by the server based browser software application, each of the at least one processing results to the client computing device, wherein the client based software browser software application is configured to cause the display of the at least one representation of the network resource and embedded resources by performing the second set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions on the processing result.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the remote session browsing configurations identifies a communication protocol comprising 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.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more remote session browsing configurations corresponding to the browse session request based on at least one of the network resource and the one or more embedded resources comprises determining one or more remote session browsing configurations based on at least one of 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, and content provider configuration data.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining a second browse session request from the client computing device, wherein the second browse session request comprises an address of a second network resource, the second network resource including a second one or more embedded resource identifiers for a second one or more embedded resources;

causing, by the server computing device, a second server based browser software application to be instantiated;

obtaining, at the second server based browser software application, the second network resource and the second one or more embedded resources from one or more content providers; and

determining a second remote session browsing configuration for the second browse session request.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein at least one determined remote session browsing configuration from the first browse session request is different than the determined second remote session browsing configuration from the second browse session request.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for the browse session request based on at least one of the network resource and the one or more embedded resources includes determining a first remote session browsing configuration for a first embedded resource, and a second remote session browsing configuration for a second embedded resource.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for the browse session request includes determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for the browse session request based at least in part on a determination of one or more remote session browsing configurations selected by the client computing device.

8. 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 server-based browser software module executed by the one or more computer processors, the server-based browser software module in communication with a separate client-based browser software module executing remotely from the network computing component, wherein the network computing component is operable to;

determine, by the server-based browser software module, a remote session browsing configuration for one or more network resources requested by a client computing device, the one or more network resources hosted by one or more content providers separate from the network computing component, wherein the remote session browsing configuration is determined based at least partly on a network resource processing capability of the client computing device, wherein the remote session browsing configuration identifies at least a first set of processing actions of a plurality of processing actions to be performed by the server-based browser software module, and a second set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions to be performed by the client-based browser software module, wherein the server-based browser software module and client-based browser software module are both operable to perform the plurality of processing actions to process network resources for display; and

provide at least one processing result to the client computing device, each of the at least one processing results generated by performing, by the server-based browser software module, the first set of processing actions identified by the determined remote session browsing configuration, wherein the client-based browser software module is operable to cause the display of the one or more network resources by performing the second set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions on the processing result.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the remote session browsing configuration identifies a communication protocol comprising 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.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine a remote session browsing configuration for one or more network resources based at least in part on a determination of one or more remote session browsing configurations by the client computing device.

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

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the network computing component is further operable to:

obtain a first browse session request from the client computing device, wherein the first browse session request corresponds to one or more network resources; and

obtain the one or more network resources responsive to the first browse session request from the client computing device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the network computing component is further operable to:

obtain a second browse session request from the client computing device, wherein the second browse session request corresponds to a second one or more network resources;

obtain the second one or more network resources from one or more content providers responsive to the second browse session request from the client computing device; and

determine a second remote session browsing configuration for the second browse session request.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the second remote session browsing configuration is different from the first remote session browsing configuration.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more network resources comprise a network resource referencing one or more embedded resources.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for one or more network resources comprises determining a first remote session browsing configuration for a first embedded resource, and a second remote session browsing configuration for a second embedded resource.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the network computing component is further operable to:

obtain the network resource from a content provider;

process the network resource to obtain one or more embedded resource identifiers corresponding to the one or more embedded resources associated with the network resource; and

obtain the one or more embedded resources from one or more content providers based on the one or more embedded resource identifiers.

26. The system of claim 8, wherein each processing action of the first set of processing actions to be performed by the server-based browser software module is different than each processing action of the second set of processing actions to be performed by the client-based browser software module.

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

determining, by a network computing component executing a server based browser instance in communication with a separate client based browser instance executing on a client computing device separate from the network computing component, one or more remote session browsing configurations for one or more network resources hosted by one or more content providers separate from the network computing component, wherein at least one of the one or more remote session browsing configurations is determined based at least partly on a network resource processing capability of the client computing device, wherein each of the one or more remote session browsing configurations identifies at least a first set of processing actions to be performed by the sever based browser instance, and a second set of processing actions to be performed by the client based browser instance, and wherein the server based browser instance and client based browser instance are both operable to perform the processing actions of the first and second sets of processing actions to process network resources for display;

processing, by the server based browser instance, the network resources to generate at least one processing result corresponding to each of the determined remote session browsing configurations, wherein each of the at least one processing result is generated by performing the first set of processing actions identified by the corresponding determined remote session browsing configuration; and

providing, by the server based browser instance, each of the at least one processing results to the client computing device, wherein the client based browser instance is configured to cause the display of the one or more network resources by performing the second set of processing actions on the processing result.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for one or more network resources comprises determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for one or more network resources based at least in part on a determination of one or more remote session browsing configurations by the client computing device.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 further comprising:

obtaining a first browse session request from the client computing device, wherein the first browse session request corresponds to one or more network resources; and

obtaining the one or more network resources responsive to the first browse session request from the client computing device.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 20 further comprising:

obtaining a second browse session request from the client computing device, wherein the second browse session request corresponds to a second one or more network resources;

obtaining the second one or more network resources from one or more content providers responsive to the second browse session request from the client computing device; and

determining a second remote session browsing configuration for the second browse session request.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein at the second remote session browsing configuration is different from the first remote session browsing configuration.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the one or more network resources comprise a network resource referencing one or more embedded resources.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, wherein determining one or more remote session browsing configurations for one or more network resources comprises determining a first remote session browsing configuration for a first embedded resource, and a second remote session browsing configuration for a second embedded resource.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, wherein the network computing component is further operable to:

obtain the network resource from a content provider;

process the network resource to obtain one or more embedded resource identifiers corresponding to the one or more embedded resources associated with the network resource; and

obtain the one or more embedded resources from one or more content providers based on the one or more embedded resource identifiers.

27. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein each processing action of the first set of processing actions to be performed by the server-based browser instance is different than each processing action of the second set of processing actions to be performed by the client-based browser instance.