Predictive rendering of current content versions

• US 9,621,641 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2016
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vaswani, Ameet Nirmal, Pallemulle, Sajeeva Lakmal Bandara, Jain, Saral
• Primary Examiner(s): ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N
• Application Number:
  US15/048,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20160173575A1
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• Field of Search: 709203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/103 with adaptive polling, i.e. dynamically adapting the polling rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• 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 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

Features are disclosed for determining which content item or items are likely to be requested by a particular user or device, or by a group of users or devices. The determined content items may be obtained independently of a request from the users or devices, and substantially current versions of the content items may be maintained at a server system, such as an intermediary system. Visual representations of the content items may be generated to reduce processing requirements at a user device. When the content items are determined to be likely to be requested by a particular user, a predicted time may also be determined, and the visual representations may be generated such that they are available at the predicted time.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a system comprising one or more server computing devices, obtaining information describing a content page determined, by the system, to be requested by a user of a plurality of users during a repeating window of time;

maintaining, during at least an upcoming window of time associated with the repeating window of time, information generated while rendering, or partially rendering, the content page for presentation, the maintained information being associated with, at least, the user;

receiving, from a user device of the user, a request for the content page, the request including identifying information associated with the user;

identifying the user based on the received identifying information; and

providing, to the user device using the maintained information associated with the identified user, access to the content page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein maintaining information is in response to determining that a present time is within a particular range of the upcoming window of time.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

initializing a server-based browser for rendering, or partially rendering, the content page for presentation, the server-based browser being executed by the system separate from the user device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the repeating window of time identifies a length of time beginning at a particular time each day.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein maintaining information during at least an upcoming window of time comprises maintaining information during a first amount of time prior to the upcoming window of time to a second amount of time subsequent to the upcoming window of time.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein information generated while rendering the content page comprises a visual representation of the content page.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein providing access to the content page comprises:

establishing a remote desktop connection with the user device of the user, or

providing, to the user device, a video feed of the content page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein information generated while partially rendering the content page comprises a document object model associated with the content page, or a render tree associated with the content page.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein maintaining information generated while rendering, or partially rendering, the content page comprises:

periodically polling a content server associated with the content page to obtain a current, at the time of polling, version of the content page, and rendering, or partially rendering, the current version of the content page.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein providing access to the content page comprises providing access to the current version of the content page.

11. A system comprising one or more server computing devices and one or more computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more server computing devices, cause the one or more server computing devices to perform operations comprising:

obtaining information describing a content page determined, by the system, to be requested by a user of a plurality of users during a repeating window of time;

maintaining, during at least an upcoming window of time associated with the repeating window of time, information generated while rendering, or partially rendering, the content page for presentation, the maintained information being associated with, at least, the user;

receiving, from a user device of the user, a request for the content page, the request including identifying information associated with the user;

identifying the user based on the received identifying information; and

providing, to the user device using the maintained information associated with the identified user, access to the content page.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein maintaining information is in response to determining that a present time is within a particular range of the upcoming window of time.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the window of time identifies a length of time beginning at a particular time each day.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein maintaining information during at least an upcoming window of time comprises maintaining information during a first amount of time prior to the upcoming window of time to a second amount of time subsequent to the upcoming window of time.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein information generated while rendering the content page comprises a visual representation of the content page.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein providing access to the content page comprises:

establishing a remote desktop connection with the user device of the user, or

providing, to the user device, a video feed of the content page.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein information generated while partially rendering the content page comprises a document object model associated with the content page, or a render tree associated with the content page.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein maintaining information generated while rendering, or partially rendering, the content page comprises:

periodically polling a content server associated with the content page to obtain a current, at the time of polling, version of the content page, and rendering, or partially rendering, the current version of the content page.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein providing access to the content page comprises providing access to information associated with the current version of the content page.

20. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing instructions, that when executed by a system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

obtaining information describing a content page determined, by the system, to be requested by a user of a plurality of users during a repeating window of time;

maintaining, during at least an upcoming window of time associated with the repeating window of time, information generated while rendering, or partially rendering, the content page for presentation, the maintained information being associated with, at least, the user;

receiving, from a user device of the user, a request for the content page, the request including identifying information associated with the user;

identifying the user based on the received identifying information; and

providing, to the user device using the maintained information associated with the identified user, access to the content page.

21. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 20, wherein the window of time identifies a length of time beginning at a particular time each day.