ACCESS TO NETWORK CONTENT

• US 20170346928A1
• Filed: 08/18/2017
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Burkard, Timo, Jain, Arvind, Bentzel, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 11,019,179 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• 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 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams

Abstract

A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering the next navigation event. For example, the method and system may predict a likely next uniform resource locator during web browsing to preemptively request content from the network before the user selects the corresponding link on a web page. The methods and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying content to prerender, the method comprising:

identifying one or more links on a web page;

selecting, using a processor, at least one of the one or more links to identify as a link to prerender; and

embedding a tag within the web page to direct a web browser to prerender the at least one selected link.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an order to prerender the at least one selected link; and

wherein the tag further comprises the order.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the web page is a page of search results and the order represents a relevance for each search result.

4. A processing system for embedding prerender instructions within network content comprising:

at least one processor;

a prerender module associated with the at least one processor; and

a memory coupled to the at least one processor;

wherein the prerender module is configured to identify one or more links within a web page, select at least one of the one or more links as a link to prerender, and embed a tag within the web page to direct a web browser to prerender the selected at least one link.

5. The processing system of claim 4, wherein the tag is a hypertext markup language (HTML) tag.