Remote browsing and searching

• US 10,275,433 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2016
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hayden, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US15/391,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20170177552A1
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

A remote browsing and searching process is directed to the management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. Responsive to a search request, the network computing provider provides search results corresponding to historical content representations associated with content previously requested by the client computing device, search results corresponding to content representations associated with current content, or to data about changes in the content. The network computing provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, navigation paths of other client computing devices, relationships or differences between various versions of content, or based on any number of other factors.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under the control of a network computing component executing on one or more physical computing devices configured to execute specific instructions,

storing a plurality of previously-accessed versions of web pages, wherein the plurality of previously-accessed versions of web pages includes a version previously accessed by a client computing device;

receiving, from the client computing device, a search request associated with one or more of the plurality of previously-accessed versions of web pages, the one or more previously-accessed versions of web pages associated with a type of web page, wherein the type of web page comprises a top level type of web page or one or more secondary level types of web pages, and wherein the search request comprises a search term limiting search results to a subset of the type of web page;

obtaining a first previously-accessed version satisfying the search request;

obtaining a contextual web page associated with the first previously-accessed version, wherein the contextual web page comprises a web page requested by the client computing device contemporaneously with the first previously-accessed version; and

generating a response that causes display of one or more objects on the client computing device, wherein a first object of the one or more objects comprises a representation of the first previously-accessed version, and wherein a second object of the one or more objects comprises a representation of the contextual web page.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a top level type corresponds to a landing page of a web site, and wherein a secondary level type corresponds to a detail page reachable from the landing page.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving, from the client computing device, a request for a web page;

retrieving the web page from a content server;

transmitting the web page to the client computing device; and

storing the web page at a network-accessible data store as a previously-accessed version of the web page.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 further comprising:

determining a type of the web page; and

storing, in connection with the previously-accessed version of the web page, information indicating the determined type.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein determining the type of the web page comprises using a machine learning component to analyze the web page and data regarding additional web page requests received from client computing devices.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the search request further comprises a date range, and wherein previously-accessed versions satisfying the search request comprise versions of web pages requested by the client computing device during the date range.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the search request comprises one or more search terms associated with a visual aspect of the previously-accessed versions, and wherein the visual aspect comprises at least one of an image, video, color, or layout of a previously-accessed version.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the web page being requested by the client computing device contemporaneously with the first previously-accessed version comprises the web page being requested by the client computing device immediately before the first previously-accessed version or immediately after the previously-accessed version.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein generating the response comprises including, in the response, a third object representing a browsing path between the first object and the second object.

10. A system comprising:

a network-accessible data store storing a plurality of previously-accessed versions of network resources; and

a network computing component comprising one or more computing devices, wherein the network computing component is in communication with the network-accessible data store and configured to at least;

receive, from a client computing device, a request for a network resource;

obtain the network resource from a content server;

transmit the network resource to the client computing device;

store the network resource in the network-accessible data store as a first previously-accessed version of the network resource;

determine a type of the network resource, wherein the type of network resource comprises a top level or one or more secondary levels;

store, in the network-accessible data store, information indicating the type of the network resource;

receive, from the client computing device, a search request associated with one or more of the plurality of previously-accessed versions of network resources, the one or more previously-accessed versions associated with the type of network resource, wherein the search request comprises a search term limiting search results to a subset of the type of network resource; and

generate a response that causes display of one or more objects on the client computing device, wherein an object of the one or more objects comprises a representation of the first previously-accessed version, and wherein the first previously-accessed version satisfies the search request.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein a network resource of a top level type corresponds to a landing page of a content server, and wherein a network resource of a secondary level type corresponds to a detail page.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the type of the network resource comprises using a machine learning component to analyze the network resource and data regarding additional requests received from client computing devices.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the network computing component is further configured to at least:

retrieve a contextual network resource associated with the first previously-accessed version, wherein the contextual network resource comprises a network resource requested by the client computing device contemporaneously with the first previously-accessed version; and

include, in the response, a contextual object comprising a representation of the contextual network resource.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the search request further comprises a date range, and wherein previously-accessed versions satisfying the search request comprise network resources requested by the client computing device during the date range.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the search request comprises one or more search terms associated with a visual aspect of the previously-accessed versions, and wherein the visual aspect comprises at least one of an image, video, color, or layout of a previously-accessed version.

16. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing executable instructions that configure a network computing component to perform a process comprising:

receiving, from a client computing device, a request for a network resource;

obtaining the network resource from a content server;

transmitting the network resource to the client computing device;

storing the network resource as a previously-accessed version of the network resource;

determining a type of the network resource, wherein the type of network resource comprises a top level or one or more secondary levels;

storing information indicating the type of the network resource;

receiving, from the client computing device, a search request associated with one or more previously-accessed versions of network resources, the one or more previously-accessed versions associated with the type of network resource, wherein the search request comprises a search term limiting search results to a subset of types of network resources;

generating a response that causes display of one or more objects on the client computing device, wherein each object of the one or more objects comprises a representation of a respective one of the previously-accessed versions satisfying the search request; and

transmitting the response to the client computing device.

17. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the type of network resource comprises a top level or one or more secondary levels.

18. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 17, wherein a network resource of a top level type corresponds to a landing page of a content server, and wherein a network resource of a secondary level type corresponds to a detail page.

19. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the process further comprises:

retrieving a contextual network resource associated with the previously-accessed version, wherein the contextual network resource comprises a network resource requested by the client computing device contemporaneously with the previously-accessed version; and

including, in the response, a contextual object comprising a representation of the contextual network resource.

20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the search request comprises one or more search terms associated with a visual aspect of the previously-accessed versions, and wherein the visual aspect comprises at least one of an image, video, color, or layout of a previously-accessed version.