OFFLINE BROWSING SESSION MANAGEMENT

• US 20150172359A1
• Filed: 03/02/2015
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Brett R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,057,320 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable

Abstract

A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing provider. The browse session instance may correspond to one or more requested network resources. The network computing provider instantiates the browse session instance and retrieves the requested content. The network computing provider processes the requested content and provides a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device. The network computing provider further provides an offline content representation to an offline browse storage component for storage. The client computing device may display the representation of the requested content and may send user interaction data based on user interactions.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a computer-readable memory storing executable instructions; and

one or more processors in communication with the computer-readable memory, the one or more processors programmed by the executable instructions to at least;

execute a server-side browser application;

obtain, by the server-side browser application, a request for a network resource from a client-side browser application executing on a client computing device, wherein the network resource can be processed with a plurality of processing actions, wherein the server-side browser application is configured to perform each of the plurality of processing actions, and wherein the client-side browser application is also configured to perform each of the plurality of processing actions; and

responsive to the request for the network resource;

process, using the server-side browser application, the network resource to generate an offline content representation;

transmit the offline content representation to an offline browse storage component, associated with the client computing device, to be accessed when a network connection to the server-side browser application is unavailable;

process, using the server-side browser application, the network resource by performing at least a portion of the plurality of processing actions to generate a processing result; and

transmit the processing result to the client-side browser application, wherein the client-side browser application performs a remaining portion of the plurality of processing actions to display a representation of the network resource at the client computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed by the executable instructions to determine, based at least partly on information received from the offline browse storage component, an offline remote session browse configuration specifying the processing actions to be performed by the server-side browser application to generate the offline content representation, and wherein the information received from the offline browse storage component includes at least one of pricing plan information, available bandwidth, or prioritization information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed by the executable instructions to determine, based at least partly on information received from the client-side browser application, a client remote session browsing configuration specifying the processing actions to be performed by the server-side browser application to generate the processing result.

4. A computer-implemented method for remote session browsing comprising:

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

obtaining a request for a network resource from a client computing device; and

responsive to the request for the network resource;

transmitting one or more offline content representations to an offline browse storage component associated with client computing device to be accessed when a network connection to the network computing component is unavailable, wherein the one or more offline content representations correspond to at least one of the network resource or content associated with the network resource; and

transmitting a processing result to the client computing device, wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of at least one of the network resource or content associated with the network resource to be displayed at the client computing device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising determining an offline remote session browsing configuration, wherein the offline remote session browsing configuration identifies a set of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component to generate the one or more offline content representations.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising determining the offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource based on information obtained from the offline browse storage component.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the information obtained from the offline browse storage component corresponds to a pricing plan associated with the client computing device, and wherein determining the offline remote session browsing configuration includes determining the offline remote session browsing configuration based, at least in part, on the pricing plan.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising determining a client remote session browsing configuration, wherein the client remote session browsing configuration identifies a set of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component to generate the processing result.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the processing result is generated by performing the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component, and wherein the client computing device is operable to cause the display of a representation of the network resource based on the processing result.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration includes at least one shared action to be performed during generation of the one or more offline content representations.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 further comprising:

generating the processing result by performing the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component, including performing the at least one shared action; and

generating the offline content representation including performing the at least one shared action at the network computing component, wherein the at least one shared action is performed no more than once.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the client computing device is configured to obtain the offline content representation from the offline browse storage component, and wherein the client computing device is configured to display a representation of the network resource based on the offline content representation.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein transmitting one or more offline content representations to an offline browse storage component associated with client computing device includes scheduling the transmission of the one or more offline content representations based, at least in part, on the transmission of the processing result to the client computing device.

14. A system comprising one or more server computing devices, the system configured to at least:

obtain a request for a network resource from a client computing device; and

responsive to the request for the network resource;

transmit one or more offline content representations to an offline browse storage component associated with the client computing device to be accessed when a network connection to the network computing component is unavailable, wherein the one or more offline content representations correspond to at least one of the network resource or content associated with the network resource; and

transmit a separate processing result to the client computing device, wherein the processing result corresponds to a representation of at least one of the network resource or content associated with the network resource to be displayed at the client computing device.

15. The system of claim 14 further configured to determine an offline browsing configuration based on information obtained from the offline browse storage component, wherein the offline browsing configuration identifies a set of processing actions to be performed at the one or more server computing devices to generate the one or more offline content representations.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the information obtained from the offline browse storage component includes a pricing plan associated with the client computing device, and wherein the offline browsing configuration is based, at least in part, on the pricing plan.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the offline browsing configuration identifies one or more processing actions to be performed at the client computing device.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more offline content representations correspond to a static representation of the network resource.

19. The system of claim 14 further configured to determine a remote session browsing configuration, wherein the remote session browsing configuration identifies a set of processing actions to be performed at the one or more server computing devices to generate the processing result.

20. The system of claim 19 further configured to determine the remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource based on a resource data format, a resource content type, a resource size, resource processing requirements, resource latency requirements, a number or type of interactive elements, a resource security risk, historical resource usage data, resource usage predictions, an associated user preference, an associated network address, an associated network domain, historical content provider usage data, or content provider configuration data.