Managing data access on a computing device

• US 9,961,126 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2015
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ben-Harrush, Idan, Bernstein, Ran, Guy Ifergan, Nili, Shachor, Gal
• Primary Examiner(s): Zong, Ruolei
• Application Number:
  US14/698,859
• Publication Number:
  US 20160323414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,098 Days
• Field of Search: 709225
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

Managing data access on a computing device by receiving at a first computing device first webpage-related content received from a second computing device via a communications network, storing the first webpage-related content in a locally-accessible data storage medium that is locally accessible to the first computing device, causing an agent executed by the first computing device to access the first webpage-related content from the locally-accessible data storage medium, intercepting an attempt by the agent to receive second webpage-related content via the communications network, and providing the second webpage-related content to the agent from the locally-accessible data storage medium.

Claims

1. A method for managing data access on a computing device, comprising:

receiving at a first computing device, comprising a mobile computing device, first webpage-related content within a native application received from a second computing device via a communications network;

storing the first webpage-related content in a locally-accessible data storage medium that is assembled with the first computing device;

causing a webview agent executed by the first computing device to access the first webpage-related content from the locally-accessible data storage medium;

intercepting a request by the webview agent to receive second webpage-related content indicated by a link included in the request, via the communications network, wherein the intercepting is performed by the native application in which the webpage-related content was provided to the first computing device; and

providing the second webpage-related content to the webview agent from the locally-accessible data storage medium.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

determining whether retrieval of the second webpage-related content via the communications network is required; and

if retrieval of the second webpage-related content via the communications network is required,

receiving the second webpage-related content via the communications network, and

storing the second webpage-related content in the locally-accessible data storage medium that is assembled with the first computing device.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the determining comprises determining whether the second webpage-related content is present in the locally-accessible data storage medium that is assembled with the first computing device.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the determining comprises determining whether there is an indication that the second webpage-related content is dynamic content that is to be generated in response to a content retrieval request.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the determining comprises determining whether there is an indication that the second webpage-related content has changed or expired since it was last acquired.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the providing comprises serving the second webpage-related content to the webview agent.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the providing comprises causing the webview agent to access the second webpage-related content from the locally-accessible data storage medium that is assembled with the first computing device.

8. The method of claim 1 and further comprising configuring the native application prior to its execution by the first computing device by

identifying static resources of a web application including the first webpage-related content and the second webpage-related content;

and

packaging the native application together with the static resources.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein intercepting the request by the webview agent to receive second webpage-related content via the communications network comprises intercepting using hooking.

9. A mobile computing device, comprising:

a processor connected to a communications network; and

a memory, configured with a webview agent configured to access webpage-related content in the memory, and the memory further storing a native application including first webpage-related content, wherein the native application is configured to;

store the first webpage-related content in the memory,

intercept a request by the webview agent to receive second webpage-related content indicated by a link included in the request, via the communications network, and

provide the second webpage-related content to the webview agent from the memory.

10. The mobile computing device of claim 9 wherein the native application is configured to

determine whether retrieval of the second webpage-related content via the communications network is required;

and

if retrieval of the second webpage-related content via the communications network is required,

receive the second webpage-related content via the communications network, and

store the second webpage-related content in the memory.

11. The mobile computing device of claim 10 wherein the native application is configured to determine whether the second webpage-related content is present in the memory.

12. The mobile computing device of claim 10 wherein the native application is configured to determine whether there is an indication that the second webpage-related content is dynamic content that is to be generated in response to a content retrieval request.

13. The mobile computing device of claim 10 wherein the native application is configured to determine whether there is an indication that the second webpage-related content is has changed or expired since it was last acquired.

14. The mobile computing device of claim 9 wherein the native application is configured to serve the second webpage-related content to the webview agent.

15. The mobile computing device of claim 9 wherein the native application is configured to cause the webview agent to access the second webpage-related content from the memory.