Overloaded communication session

• US 9,655,158 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2015
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Garrett, Maryam, Baluja, Shumeet, Gil, Elad
• Primary Examiner(s): Rostami, Mohammad S
• Application Number:
  US14/926,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20160050708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/082 among bearers or channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

A method of providing information responsive to a request from a wireless communication device involves receiving an information request from a mobile device and generating responsive information for the information request, transmitting a first portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a first communication session, and transmitting a second portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a second, overloaded communication session.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a data request for a first type of data that is responsive to a data request;

identifying, by the computing device, data that is responsive to the data request;

identifying at least a first portion of the data that is of the first type of data and a second portion of the data that is of a second type of data;

transmitting, by the computing device during a first communication session at a first time, the first portion of the data to a mobile device for display on the mobile device; and

transmitting, by the computing device and during a second communication session at a second time after the first time and while the first portion of the data is being displayed on the mobile device, the second portion of the data to the mobile device for display on the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second communication session comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) communication session.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second communication session comprises a socket communication session.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data request comprises a search request.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first portion of the data that is transmitted during the first communication session comprises information in a first search result type, and the second portion of the data that is transmitted during the second communication session comprises information in a second search result type that differs from the first search result type.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising receiving, from the mobile device, an instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of the data after the first portion of the data has been fully transmitted,

wherein transmitting the second portion of data is performed in response to receiving the instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of data,

wherein the mobile device provides the instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of data for receipt by the computing device in response to user input that selects to view the information in the second search result type while the mobile device is displaying the first portion of data that comprises information in the first search result type.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the first portion of the data is transmitted to the mobile device for display by the mobile device before transmission of the second portion of the data is complete.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the mobile device, an instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of the data after the first portion of the data has been fully transmitted, wherein transmitting the second portion of data is performed in response to receiving the instruction.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the mobile device, an instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of the data before the first portion of the data has been fully transmitted, wherein transmitting the second portion of data is performed in response to receiving the instruction.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communication session is interrupted, and wherein the second communication session includes data that was not included in the first communication session.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the second communication session contains more data than the first communication session.

12. A method, comprising:

transmitting a request for data from a mobile communication device to the server, the request being for a first type of data;

receiving, at the mobile communication device and from the server, a first portion of data associated with the request, wherein the first portion of data is of the first type of data;

displaying, on the mobile communication device, the first portion of data associated with the request;

after displaying at least some of the first portion of data, receiving, at the mobile communication device from the server, a second portion of data in a communication session associated with the request, wherein the second portion of data is of a second type of data; and

displaying, on the mobile communication device, the second portion of data.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the receiving is carried out by a non-browser application.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a selection of a result element in response to display of the first portion of data or the second portion of data, and generating a telephone connection in response to the selection.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving, at the mobile communication device, a user request to view the second portion of data while the first portion of data is being displayed,

the mobile communication device displays the second portion of data in response to having received the user request to view the second portion of data while the first portion of data was being displayed.

16. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computer devices cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations, comprising:

receiving a request for a first type of data among the data that is responsive to a data request;

identifying data that is responsive to the data request;

identifying at least a first portion of the data that is of the first type of data and a second portion of the data that is of a second type of data;

transmitting, during a first communication session at a first time, the first portion of the data to a mobile device for display on the mobile device; and

transmitting, during a second communication session at a second time after the first time and while the first portion of the data is being displayed on the mobile device, the second portion of the data to the mobile device for display on the mobile device.

17. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the second communication session comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) communication session.

18. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the data request comprises a search request.

19. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, the operations further comprising:

receiving, from the mobile device, an instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of the data after the first portion of the data has been fully transmitted, wherein transmitting the second portion of data is performed in response to receiving the instruction.

20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, the operations further comprising:

receiving, from the mobile device, an instruction to execute transmission of the second portion of the data before the first portion of the data has been fully transmitted, wherein transmitting the second portion of data is performed in response to receiving the instruction.