File download manager

• US 9,935,999 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2015
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Hudgin, Darryl, Gil, Sebastian
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hurst, Andrea
• Application Number:
  US14/867,397
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A download module accesses a download queue including at least two file download requests from an application running on a client device of a server. The application and each of the file download requests is associated with a context that comprises a set of context components that each indicates a part of the application. The file download request context components indicate parts of the application that use the requested file and the application context components indicate parts of the application that are active. The download module ranks each of the file download requests based on a comparison of the respective file download request context components of each file download request to the application context components of the application. The download module then selects two or more file download requests in the download queue for concurrent execution based on the respective rankings of the file download requests in the download queue.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by one or more hardware processors, at least two file download requests from an application running on a client device, each download request indicating a respective context, each context indicating a list of component parts of the application that will use the respective file;

queuing the at least two file download requests on a download queue;

receiving, by the one or more hardware processors, from the client device, a second context, the second context indicating a second list of component parts of the application in which the user is located;

comparing, by the one or more hardware processors, the list of the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the second list of the second context;

ranking, by the one or more hardware processors, each of the file download requests in the download queue based on the comparisons;

selecting, by the one or more hardware processors, two or more of the file download requests in the download queue based on the respective rankings; and

concurrently executing, by one or more hardware processors, the selected file download requests.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the file download requests is a request to download a media file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the context of the application comprises determining a number of matching context components between each of the respective contexts of the file download requests in the download queue and the context of the application, and selecting file download requests with a higher number of context components matching the second context over file download requests with a lower number of context components matching the second context.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the file download requests specifies an in-context priority level and an out-of-context priority level and, based on two of the file download requests in the download queue having the same number of matching context components with the context of the application, ranking each of the file download requests in the download queue comprises:

ranking the two file download requests based on their respective in-context priority levels based on the same number of matching context components being greater than zero;

or

ranking the two file download requests based on their respective out-of-context priority levels based on the same number of matching context components being zero.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the file download requests specifies a relative ordering value and, based on the two file download requests having the same in-context priority level or the same out-of-context priority level, ranking each of the file download requests in the download queue comprises ranking the two file download requests based on their respective relative ordering values.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the relative ordering value is based on a respective time at which each of the two file download requests was put in the download queue by the application.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the respective contexts of at least two of the file download requests being concurrently executed include a same context component, the method further comprising:

re-ranking each of the file download requests in the download queue based on the comparisons;

selecting a file download request in the download queue to be concurrently executed based on the respective ranking of each of the file download requests in the download queue and based on said file download request not including the same context component.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing a small download queue including at least two small file download requests from the application, a small file including less than a specified amount of data; and

concurrently executing two download requests in the small download queue based on a respective time at which each of the two small file download requests was issued by the application.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the one or more hardware processors, from the client device, a third context, the third context indicating a third list of component parts of the application in which the user is located;

comparing, by the one or more hardware processors, the list of the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the third list of the third context;

re-ranking, by the one or more hardware processors, each of the file download requests in the download queue based on the comparisons;

selecting, by the one or more hardware processors, a file download request in the download queue based on the re-ranking; and

concurrently executing, by one or more hardware processors, the selected file download request.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second list indicates whether the user is located in a viewer component and whether the user is located in a browser component of the application.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the list of component parts of the application that will use the respective file indicates whether the viewer component and whether the browser component will use the respective file.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the second list indicates the user is interacting with a message via a message application and a sender of the message.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the list of component parts of the application that will use the respective file indicates whether the respective file is from the sender of the message.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the second list indicates whether the user is located in a chat component of the application.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the list of component parts of the application that will use the respective file indicates whether the chat component of the application will use the respective file.

16. A system comprising:

a server configured to communicate with a client device running an application;

a download module configured to;

receive at least two file download requests from the application, each download request indicating a respective context, each context indicating a list of component parts of the application that will use the respective file;

queuing the at least two file download requests on a download queue;

receive from the client device, a second context, the second context indicating a second list of component parts of the application in which the user is located;

compare the list of the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the second list of the second context of the application;

rank each of the file download requests in the download queue based on the comparisons;

select two or more of the file download requests in the download queue based on the respective rankings; and

concurrently execute the selected file download requests.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the download module is further configured to compare the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the context of the application by determining a number of matching context components between each of the respective contexts of the file download requests in the download queue and the context of the application, and select a file for download having the highest number of matching context components.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein each of the file download requests specifies an in-context priority level and an out-of-context priority level and, based on two of the file download requests in the download queue having the same number of matching context components with the context of the application, the download module is further configured to:

rank the two file download requests based on their respective in-context priority levels based on the same number of matching context components being greater than zero;

or

rank the two file download requests based on their respective out-of-context priority levels based on the same number of matching context components being zero.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein each of the file download requests specifies a relative ordering value and, based on the two file download requests having the same in-context priority level or the same out-of-context priority level, the download module is further configured to rank the two file download requests based on their respective relative ordering values.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the respective contexts of at least two of the file download requests being concurrently executed include a same context component, the download module further configured to:

re-rank each of the file download requests in the download queue based on the comparisons;

select a file download request in the download queue to be concurrently executed based on the respective ranking of each of the file download requests in the download queue and based on said file download request not including the same context component.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program code which, when executed, is operative to cause a computing device to perform the steps of:

receiving at least two file download requests from an application running on a client device, each download request indicating a respective context, each context indicating a list of component parts of the application that will use the respective file;

queuing the at least two file download requests on a download queue;

receiving from the client device, a second context, the second context indicating a second list of component parts of the application in which the user is located;

comparing the list of the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the second list of the second context of the application;

ranking each of the file download requests in the download queue based on the comparisons;

selecting two or more of the file download requests in the download queue based on the respective rankings; and

concurrently executing the selected file download requests.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein:

comparing the respective context of each of the file download requests in the download queue to the context of the application comprises determining a number of matching context components between each of the respective contexts of the file download requests in the download queue and the context of the application, and the computer readable medium stores further program code that when executed is operative to cause the computing device to select and download a file having the highest number of matching context components.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein each of the file download requests specifies an in-context priority level and an out-of-context priority level and, based on two of the file download requests in the download queue having the same number of matching context components with the context of the application, ranking each of the file download requests in the download queue comprises:

ranking the two file download requests based on their respective in-context priority levels based on the same number of matching context components being greater than zero;

or ranking the two file download requests based on their respective out-of-context priority levels based on the same number of matching context components being zero.