Remote generation of composite content pages

• US 10,296,558 B1
• Filed: 02/27/2012
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: McInerny, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US13/406,380
• Time in Patent Office: 2,640 Days
• Field of Search: 715234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces

Abstract

Features are disclosed for creating composite content pages comprising items from various network-enabled content pages. Selection of items to include in a composite page is not limited to items formatted or exposed by content providers in a specific format, such as RSS. A network computing component can retrieve, process, and format content from any content provider, and then generate a composite page containing the selected content items in a format specified by a user or automatically determined by the network computing component. Additionally, the content items can be processed to reduce or prevent the likelihood of security issues that may arise when compiling content from different content providers into a single composite page.

Claims

1. A system for compiling content items into a composite resource, the system comprising:

a network computing component comprising one or more hardware server computing devices, the network computing component configured to execute a browsing application and operable to;

obtain, from a client computing device separate from the network computing component, browsing configuration information associated with a client-based browsing application;

obtain selection information identifying a plurality of content items to be included in a composite network resource, wherein a content item of the plurality of content items comprises a portion of a corresponding network resource of a plurality of network resources;

determine, by the network computing component, to process a first subset of network resources of the plurality of network resources in one or more instances of the browsing application based on the browsing configuration information;

render, using a first instance of the browsing application, a first secure display portion of a first content item of the first subset of network resources;

render, using a second instance of the browsing application, a second secure display portion of a second content item of the first subset of network resources;

determine, by the network computing component, to process a second subset of network resources of the plurality of network resources in the client-based browsing application based on the browsing configuration information;

obtain an unprocessed content item of the second subset of network resources;

generate the composite network resource including the first and second secure display portions from the first subset of network resources and the unprocessed content item from the second subset of network resources; and

transmit the composite network resource to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device displays the first and second secure display portions and processes the unprocessed content item to render the unprocessed content item for display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is further operable to remove embedded code from the first subset of network resources.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a display portion of a content item comprises at least one of a static image, a textual copy, or a reformatted copy.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the browsing application of the network computing component is in communication with the client-based browsing application of the client computing device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the content items is selected by a user of the client computing device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the content items is selected by the network computing component.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein generating the composite network resource occurs at predetermined intervals.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component being operable to render the first secure display portion comprises the network computing component being operable to encrypt user information associated with the first content item.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine that a first network resource of the first subset of network resources is to be processed in an instance of the one or more instances of the browsing application into a visual format that differs from a visual format specified by the first network resource.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is further operable to:

obtain additional selection information regarding selections, by a plurality users, of content items of a first network resource of the plurality of network resources; and

determine, based at least partly on the additional selection information, a default content item for the first network resource.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the network computing component is operable to determine the default content item based at least partly on weighting individual selections differently based on context of the individual selections.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the network computing component is operable to weight recent content item selections more heavily than older content item selections.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is operable to identify a selected content item of the plurality of content items based at least partly on an analysis of markup code corresponding to a selected region of a network resource of the plurality of network resources.

14. A computer-implemented method comprising:

as implemented by a server system comprising one or more computing devices configured to execute specific instructions,

obtaining, from a client computing device separate from the server system, browsing configuration information associated with a client-based browsing application;

obtaining selection information identifying a plurality of content items to be included in a composite network resource;

determining, by the server system, to process a first subset of network resources of the plurality of network resources in one or more instances of a server-side browsing application executed by the server system based on the browsing configuration information;

rendering, using a first instance of the server-side browsing application, a first secure display portion of a first content item of the first subset of network resources;

rendering, using a second instance of the server-side browsing application, a second secure display portion of a second content item of the first subset of network resources;

determining, by the server system, to process a second subset of network resources of the plurality of network resources in the client-based browsing application based on the browsing configuration information;

obtaining an unprocessed content item of the second subset of network resources;

generating the composite network resource including the first and second secure display portions from the first subset of network resources and the unprocessed content item from the second subset of network resources; and

transmitting the composite network resource to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device displays the rendered display portion and processes the unprocessed content item to render the unprocessed content item for display.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein

rendering the first secure display portion comprises encrypting user information associated with the first content item.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein rendering the first secure display portion comprises generating at least one of:

a static image, a textual copy, or a reformatted copy.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising determining that a first network resource of the first subset of network resources is to be processed in an instance of the one or more instances of the browsing application into a visual format that differs from a visual format specified by the first network resource.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising identifying a selected content item of the plurality of content items based at least partly on an analysis of markup code corresponding to a selected region of a network resource of the plurality of network resources.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, further comprising analyzing the markup code corresponding to the selected region of the network resource to identify a tag associated with the selected content item.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein obtaining the selection information comprises obtaining selection information representing activation of a user interface option for adding a default content item of a network resource to the composite network resource.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising determining a default content item based at least partly on an analysis of a selection history of the user.

22. The computer implemented method of claim 14, further comprising:

calculating a relative popularity of each content item of a plurality of content items of a corresponding network resource;

adjusting a calculation for a particular content item, of the plurality of content items of the corresponding network resource, based on at least one of;

a date a selection of the particular content item was made, a pattern in content item selections of other users who have accessed the corresponding network resource, or a current season; and

determining the particular content item as a default content item based at least partly on the calculation.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein generating the composite network resource comprises generating the composite network resource wherein the first secure display portion is to be provided using a display-based communication protocol, and wherein the unprocessed content item is to be provided using a hypertext-based communication protocol.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the first instance of the server-side browsing application executes in parallel with the second instance of the server-side browsing application, and wherein the first instance of the server-side browsing application is blocked from accessing the second instance of the server-side browsing application.