PRE-RENDERING WEB CONTENT

• US 20120151308A1
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jacob, Richard, Laertz, Stephan, Falkenberg, Matthias, Sambale, Sascha
• Granted Patent: US 8,799,759 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

A method and computer program product for pre-rendering web content is described. A method may comprise receiving, via a computing device, an implicit indication of a request for web content associated with a web element. The method may further comprise pre-rendering the web content associated with the web element based upon, at least in part, the implicit indication of the request for the web content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, via a computing device, an implicit indication of a request for web content associated with a web element; and

pre-rendering the web content associated with the web element based upon, at least in part, the implicit indication of the request for the web content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the web content at the computing device based upon, at least in part, an explicit request for the web content.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

delivering the pre-rendered web content to the computing device based upon, at least in part, an explicit request for the web content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content is linked from the web element.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the implicit indication includes, at least in part, at least one of:

a cursor action associated with the web element, a clicking action associated with the web element, camera feedback, an explicit request for web content, and accessing web content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the web element is at least one of:

text, lines of text, a link, an image, video content, audio content, and web content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein pre-rendering the web content is further based upon, at least in part, at least one of:

a navigation profile of a user, and a history of web content being pre-rendered without being explicitly requested.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the pre-rendered web content is stored in a cache until, at least one of:

the web content has been delivered, the web content changes after a time frame, and the time frame ends without explicit request for the web content.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the implicit indication is based upon, at least in part, camera feedback associated with a user'"'"'s action.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the implicit indication is based upon, at least in part, at least one of:

a right clicking action associated with the web element, and selection of a key configured, at least in part, to allow a user to launch at least one of;

a new web browser window, and a new web browser tab.

11. A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving an implicit indication of a request for web content associated with a web element; and

pre-rendering the web content associated with the web element based upon, at least in part, the implicit indication of the request for the web content.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions for:

displaying the web content at the computing device based upon, at least in part, an explicit request for the web content.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions for:

delivering the pre-rendered web content to the computing device based upon, at least in part, an explicit request for the web content.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the web content is linked from the web element.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the implicit indication includes, at least in part, at least one of:

a cursor action associated with the web element, a clicking action associated with the web element, camera feedback, an explicit request for web content, and accessing web content.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the web element is at least one of:

text, lines of text, a link, an image, video content, audio content, and web content.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein pre-rendering the web content is further based upon, at least in part, at least one of:

a navigation profile of a user, and a history of web content being pre-rendered without being explicitly requested.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the pre-rendered web content is stored in a cache until, at least one of:

the web content has been delivered, the web content changes after a time frame, and the time frame ends without explicit request for the web content.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the implicit indication is based upon, at least in part, camera feedback associated with a user'"'"'s action.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the implicit indication is based upon, at least in part, at least one of:

a right clicking action associated with the web element, and selection of a key configured, at least in part, to allow a user to launch at least one of;

a new web browser window, and a new web browser tab.