REDUCING LATENCY IN DOWNLOADING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES USING MULTIPLE THREADS

• US 20190026161A1
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Published: 01/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Toksoz, Tuna, Price, Thomas Graham
• Granted Patent: US 10,678,605 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0858 One way delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware
• 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: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing latency in presenting content. In one aspect, a system includes (i) a native application that presents an interactive item and (ii) a latency reduction engine. The latency reduction engine detects interaction with the interactive item that links to a first electronic resource that is (i) different from the native application and (ii) provided by a first network domain and in response to the detecting, reduces latency in presenting the first electronic resource, including executing a first processing thread and a second processing thread in parallel. The first processing thread requests a second electronic resource from a second network domain and loads the second electronic resource and, in response to the loading, stores a browser cookie for the second network domain. The second processing thread requests the first electronic resource and presents the first electronic resource.

Claims

1. A system for downloading content with multiple different threads, comprising:

a native application that presents an interactive item; and

a latency reduction engine that;

detects an interaction with the interactive item that links to a first electronic resource that is (i) different from the native application and (ii) provided by a first network domain; and

in response to the detecting, reduces latency in presenting the first electronic resource, including;

executing a first processing thread that;

requests a second electronic resource from a second network domain different from the first network domain; and

loads the second electronic resource and, in response to the loading, stores a browser cookie for the second network domain;

executing in parallel with the first processing thread, a second processing thread that;

requests the first electronic resource from the first network domain; and

presents the first electronic resource.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein loading the second electronic resource comprises loading the second electronic resource in an in-application browser frame of the native application.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the in-application browser frame shares with the web browser application a web browser cookie jar that handles the browser cookie.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the latency reduction engine reduces errors in presenting the first electronic resource by executing the first processing thread and second processing thread in parallel rather than waiting for the first processing thread to complete before executing the second processing thread.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the latency reduction engine:

detects a user return from the web browser application to the native application; and

in response to detecting the user return, removes the in-application browser frame from the native application.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the latency reduction engine:

detects an occurrence of a pre-specified user action after presentation of the first electronic resource, the pre-specified user action occurring using a given electronic resource;

obtains data from the browser cookie; and

transmits, using a web beacon of the given electronic resource, data specifying the occurrence of the pre-specified user action and the data obtained from the browser cookie.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first processing thread:

opens a web browser application different from the native application; and

presents the first electronic resource in the web browser application.

8. A method of downloading content with multiple different threads, comprising:

detecting, by a client device, an interaction with an interactive item that is presented by a native application executing on the client device, the interactive item linking to a first electronic resource (i) different from the native application and (ii) provided by a first network domain;

in response to the detecting, reducing latency in presenting the first electronic resource at the client device, including;

executing, by the client device, a first processing thread that;

requests a second electronic resource from a second network domain different from the first network domain; and

loads the second electronic resource at the client device and, in response to the loading, stores a browser cookie for the second network domain at the client device;

executing, by the client device and in parallel with the first processing thread, a second processing thread that;

requests the first electronic resource from the first network domain; and

presents the first electronic resource.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein loading the second electronic resource at the client device comprises loading the second electronic resource in an in-application browser frame of the native application.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the in-application browser frame shares with the web browser application a web browser cookie jar that handles the browser cookie.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising reducing errors in presenting the first electronic resource at the client device by executing the first processing thread and second processing thread in parallel rather than waiting for the first processing thread to complete before executing the second processing thread.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting a user return from the web browser application to the native application; and

in response to detecting the user return, removing the in-application browser frame from the native application.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting an occurrence of a pre-specified user action after presentation of the first electronic resource, the pre-specified user action occurring using a given electronic resource;

obtaining data from the browser cookie; and

transmitting, using a web beacon of the given electronic resource, data specifying the occurrence of the pre-specified user action and the data obtained from the browser cookie.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the first processing thread:

opens a web browser application different from the native application; and

presents the first electronic resource in the web browser application.

15. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

detecting, by a client device, an interaction with an interactive item that is presented by a native application executing on the client device, the interactive item linking to a first electronic resource (i) different from the native application and (ii) provided by a first network domain;

in response to the detecting, reducing latency in presenting the first electronic resource at the client device, including;

executing, by the client device, a first processing thread that;

requests a second electronic resource from a second network domain different from the first network domain; and

loads the second electronic resource at the client device and, in response to the loading, stores a browser cookie for the second network domain at the client device;

executing, by the client device and in parallel with the first processing thread, a second processing thread that;

requests the first electronic resource from the first network domain; and

presents the first electronic resource.

16. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein loading the second electronic resource at the client device comprises loading the second electronic resource in an in-application browser frame of the native application.

17. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the in-application browser frame shares with the web browser application a web browser cookie jar that handles the browser cookie.

18. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise reducing errors in presenting the first electronic resource at the client device by executing the first processing thread and second processing thread in parallel rather than waiting for the first processing thread to complete before executing the second processing thread.

19. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting a user return from the web browser application to the native application; and

in response to detecting the user return, removing the in-application browser frame from the native application.

20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting an occurrence of a pre-specified user action after presentation of the first electronic resource, the pre-specified user action occurring using a given electronic resource;

obtaining data from the browser cookie; and

transmitting, using a web beacon of the given electronic resource, data specifying the occurrence of the pre-specified user action and the data obtained from the browser cookie.

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