SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WEB PAGE CONTENT

• US 20120221931A1
• Filed: 02/24/2011
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc. (ViacomCBS Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc. (ViacomCBS Incorporated)
• Inventors: Gleadall, George, Paskin, Ronnie, Stewart, Shawn
• Granted Patent: US 8,788,927 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/208
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A system and method for presenting web page content to a user. A plurality of links are identified on a web page which share a designated characteristic. A user action is detected that indicates a user'"'"'s intent to select a particular link. As a response to the user action, the resource of the particular link is cached. In response to detecting that the user selects the particular link, content is presented to the user that is based at least in part on the cached resource.

Claims

1. A method for displaying website content, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:

(a) identifying, on a web page, a plurality of links that share a designated characteristic;

(b) while displaying the web page, detecting a user action that indicates that the user is about to select a particular one of the plurality of identified links;

(c) caching a resource identified by the particular one of the plurality of links; and

(d) in response to detecting the user selecting the particular one of the plurality of links, presenting content to the user that is based at least in part on the cached resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein (d) includes presenting the web page with at least a portion replaced with content from the cached resource.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein (d) includes presenting the web page to include elements that are present in both the web page and the cached resource.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein (d) includes presenting the web page to include those elements that are (i) present in the cached resource, and (ii) not present in the web page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality links share the designated characteristic of identifying a particular domain.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising restructuring each of the identified one or more links to (i) disable a browser component from activating that link to navigate to the corresponding resource, and (ii) enable caching of the resource identified by that link.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein (b) includes detecting that a user hover-over has paused over the particular one of the plurality of links.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein (b) includes detecting that a user hover-over has paused over the particular one of the plurality of links for a minimum duration that is between 25-500 milliseconds.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein (d) includes comparing the cached resource to the web page, and modifying the web page to include content from the cached resource.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein modifying the web page includes replacing only portions of the web page which are not provided by the cached resource.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein (c) includes performing a page request to retrieve the resource identified by the selected one of the plurality of links.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the page request is a full Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing augmented services to the web page in anticipation of the user'"'"'s browser not navigating away from the web page.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein (d) includes displaying a transition content to signify transition from displaying the web page to presenting content that is based in part on the cached resource.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein (b) includes an input monitoring component that detects user actions corresponding to a user hovering over individual links of the displayed web page.

15. A system for presenting for displaying website content, the system comprising:

one or more processors that are configured to implement, in connection with execution of a browsing application, processes that include;

a link restructuring component configured to (i) programmatically identify, on a web page that is being displayed to a user, a plurality of links that are of a particular class, and (ii) restructure each of the plurality of links that are of the particular class to enable a resource located by that link to be cached without making that link active to the browsing application;

an input monitoring component that detects user actions to interact and view the web page, the input monitoring component detecting actions that are indicative of a user'"'"'s intent to select individual links in advance of the user actually making a link selection;

a caching component that that is configured to identify, from the input monitoring process, an action performed on any one of the plurality of links that are of the particular class, the caching component responding to identifying the action by retrieving a resource located by the link on which the action is performed;

a presentation component that is configured to (i) identify one or more portions of the displayed web page that are different from the retrieved resource, and (ii) alter the web page to display at least one of the portion of the retrieved resource that was determined to be different.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein at least some of the link restructuring process, the input monitoring process, the caching component and the presentation component that are delivered to a computer that executes the browsing application in connection with the browsing application navigating to a particular domain or site.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein each of the link restructuring process, the input monitoring process, the caching component and the presentation component are implemented by scripts that load in to the browsing application of the computer when the web page is loaded.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the link restructuring component identifies the plurality links has locating a resource of a particular domain.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the caching component performs a full Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) page request to retrieve the resource identified by the selected one of the plurality of links.