Network resource remote process execution

• US 10,165,036 B1
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gigliotti, Samuel S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Huq, Farzana B
• Application Number:
  US13/333,716
• Time in Patent Office: 2,561 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

Abstract

In some implementations, a client device receives a network resource from a network resource provider. During rendering or other processing of the network resource on the client device, the network resource may cause the client device to send a request for a remote process to be executed by a network computing provider. For example, the network resource may include information to establish communication between the client device and the network computing provider for the client device to send a remote processing request. In response to the remote processing request, the network computing provider may obtain and execute remote process information related to the remote process. For example, the remote process information may be provided by the network resource provider and may include executable instructions to be executed by the network computing provider, and may further include data to be used during execution of the remote process.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media maintaining instructions executable by a processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request from a client computing device for a webpage to be provided to the client computing device;

sending data representing the webpage to the client computing device in response to the request, wherein the data includes markup language such that the client computing device, in response to parsing the markup language and without further input from a user, initiates a local process to be executed by the client device and a remote process to be executed by a network computing provider;

receiving a request for remote processing information from the network computing provider;

generating the remote processing information, the remote processing information including executable instructions for execution by the network computing provider;

sending the remote processing information to the network computing provider, wherein the executable instructions in the remote processing information are for use by the remote process on the network computing provider to generate a processing result for the client computing device; and

receiving, from the client computing device, an indication which of the remote process execution or the local process execution completed first.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the data further includes a script executable by the client computing device during processing of the webpage on the client computing device for communicating with the network computing provider.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the remote process information at least one of includes or references a library of one or more executable code segments useable by the network computing provider during execution of the remote process.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the data provides content to be rendered on the client computing device.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the data from a plurality of additional computing devices, the data including data for execution, by the plurality of additional computing devices, of one or more processes used to process the webpage;

receiving first data from a first portion of the plurality of additional computing devices, the first data indicating that the first portion of the plurality of additional computing devices completed remote execution of a process of the one or more processes before completing local execution of the process, the first portion of the plurality of additional computing devices having first computing resources and first capabilities;

receiving second data from a second portion of the plurality of additional computing devices, the second data indicating that the second portion of the plurality of additional computing devices completed local execution of the process before completing remote execution of the process, the second portion of the plurality of additional computing devices having second computing resources different from the first computing resources and second capabilities different from the first capabilities;

producing execution location information based, at least in part, on the first data and the second data, the execution location information indicating that for each respective process of the one or more processes, the respective process is to be processed at least one of remotely by the network computing provider or locally by the client computing device; and

sending the execution location information to at least one of the client computing device, or the network computing provider.

6. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors of a client computing device,

receiving data representing a webpage from a network resource provider, the data including instructions executable to initiate a remote process on a network computing provider and executable to initiate a local process;

sending, without further input from a user, a remote processing request to the network computing provider to cause the network computing provider to execute the remote process;

executing, by at least one of the one or more processors, the local process during processing of the remote process on the network computing provider;

receiving results from the network computing provider based on executing the remote process;

providing a rendering of the webpage based on results from at least one of the local process or the results from the network computing provider;

generating an indication of which of the remote process or the local process completed first; and

sending, to at least one of the network resource provider or the network computing provider, the indication of which of the remote process or the local process completed first.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the executing the local process is in response to parsing the data.

8. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising parsing the data by processing at least one instruction included in the data to implement an application programming interface (API) on the client computing device for communicating with the network computing provider to send the remote processing request and to receive the results from the network computing provider.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the at least one instruction included in the data to implement the API is a markup language instruction that causes execution of a script to implement the API.

10. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein processing the data includes executing the local process as a first processing thread and executing sending the remote processing request as a second processing thread, separate from the first processing thread.

11. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the remote processing request instructs the network computing provider to obtain a plurality of executable instructions associated with the remote process as the remote process information to be executed by the network computing provider to provide a processing result to the client computing device.

12. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the remote processing request instructs the network computing provider to obtain the remote process information including a plurality of executable instructions associated with the remote process from at least one of the network resource provider or a network storage location.

13. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the remote processing request includes one or more parameters to be used by the network computing provider during execution of the remote process.

14. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the remote processing request instructs the network computing provider to execute the remote process using remote data maintained in a storage location remote from the client computing device.

15. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising, prior to sending the remote processing request, acquiring execution location information that indicates that the remote process is to be executed remotely based at least in part on a type of the client computing device.

16. A system comprising:

one or more processors maintained by a network computing provider; and

one or more non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the one or more processors, the one or more non-transitory computer readable media maintaining instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations that include;

sending, to a client device, location execution information indicating whether particular processes are to be executed locally by the client computing device or remotely by the network computing provider;

receiving a request from the client computing device for execution of a particular process, by the network computing provider, as a remote process;

in response to the request from the client computing device, sending a request for remote process execution information, the remote process execution information including;

instructions for performing the remote process; and

a location at a network storage provider that stores remote process data for execution of the remote process;

accessing the remote process data at the location of the network storage provider included in the remote process execution information;

executing the remote process based, at least in part, on the remote process execution information and the remote process data to produce a processing result; and

sending the processing result to the client computing device.

17. The system as recited in claim 16, the remote process execution information is specified within the request from the client computing device.

18. The system as recited in claim 16, the network computing provider further comprising a management component and a plurality of network computing components, the management component executable on at least one of the one or more processors to select one or more of the network computing components of the plurality of network computing components to execute the remote process.

19. The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the management component selects a network computing component that is preconfigured with a library including one or more executable code segments to be used during execution of the remote process.

20. The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the operations further include:

receiving a plurality of remote processes; and

at least a first one of the plurality of network computing components is preconfigured with a first library of executable code segments useable during execution of a first remote process of the plurality of remote processes and at least a second one of the plurality of network computing components is preconfigured with a second library of executable code segments useable during execution of a second remote process of the plurality of remote processes.

21. The system as recited in claim 16, further comprising remote process data stored on the non-transitory computer-readable media and accessible by the one or more processors to execute the remote process, wherein at least a location of the remote process data is received from the network resource provider.

22. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor;

an application maintained on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable on the processor to perform operations to include;

downloading data representing a webpage from a network resource provider;

determining, based on interpreting the data and without further input from a user, that the data includes instructions to make a remote process call on a network computing provider and instructions to make a local process call on the computing device;

executing the instructions to make the remote process call to cause the computing device to send a remote processing request to the network computing provider, the remote processing request instructing the network computing provider to use remote process information available from the network resource provider for executing the remote process;

receiving a processing result from the remote process executed on the network computing provider;

executing the instructions to make the local process call on the computing device to generate a local processing result; and

providing data for display based, at least in part, on one of the processing result from the remote process executed on the network computing provider or the local processing result on the computing device that completes first.

23. The computing device as recited in claim 22, wherein the operations further include providing the processing result from the remote process to the local process.

24. The computing device as recited in claim 22, wherein:

the application processes the webpage to display content associated with the webpage on the computing device; and

the remote process completes first and the application utilizes the processing result of the remote process to display the content associated with the webpage.

25. The computing device as recited in claim 22, wherein the providing for display comprises:

providing portions of the data for rendering in an order in which the processing result from the remote process executed on the network computing provider and the local processing result become available.

26. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processor; and

an application maintained on the computer-readable medium and executable on the processor to perform operations to include;

downloading data representing a webpage from a network resource provider;

in response to processing of the data and without further input from a user, identifying a process to be executed;

acquiring, from an execution location service, execution location information that indicates, based at least in part on a type of the identified process, that the identified process is to be executed locally on the computing device or remotely at a network computing provider;

determining, based at least in part on the execution location information, to execute at least a portion of the process remotely at the network computing provider and to execute at least a portion of the process locally on the computing device;

sending instructions to the network computing provider to remotely execute the at least the portion of the process based at least in part on the execution location information;

receiving a processing result of the at least the portion of the process from the network computing provider and the at least portion of the process from the computing device, the processing result indicating which of the process from the network computing provider or the process from the computing device completed first;

providing data for display, the data for display being based at least in part on the processing result received from the network computing provider.

27. The computing device as recited in claim 26, wherein the execution location information is acquired at least in part from the network computing provider that includes the execution location service.

28. The computing device as recited in claim 26, wherein the execution location information is acquired at least in part from the network resource provider that includes the execution location service and provided the network resource.

29. The computing device as recited in claim 26, wherein the execution location service provides the execution location information based, at least in part, on aggregated data collected from a plurality of computing devices that have previously executed the process.

30. The computing device as recited in claim 26, wherein the execution location information is acquired at least in part from an examination of at least one computing resource of the computing device, the at least one computing resource comprising at least one of:

processing capability;

memory size;

mass storage capacity;

or

network connectivity.

31. The computing device as recited in claim 26, wherein the execution location information is based at least in part on a type or class of the computing device.

32. The computing device as recited in claim 26, further comprising:

causing local execution of another process specified in the data as a web worker.