Offline browsing session management

• US 8,972,477 B1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Brett R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava, Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Abedin, Normin
• Application Number:
  US13/309,417
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/203, 709/206
• US Class Current: 709/201
• 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 computer-implemented method for remote session browsing comprising:

obtaining, by a network computing component, a network resource from a content provider based on an identifier of the network resource included in a browse session request from a client computing device, wherein the network resource can be processed with a plurality of processing actions;

determining, by the network computing component, a client remote session browsing configuration and an offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource, wherein each of the client and offline remote session browsing configurations identify at least a communication protocol and a set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component;

processing, by the network computing component, the network resource to generate a processing result corresponding to the determined client remote session browsing configuration and an offline content representation corresponding to the determined offline remote session browsing configuration,

wherein the processing result and offline content representation correspond to a representation of the network resource,

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,

wherein the offline content representation is generated by performing the set of processing actions identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component, and

wherein the offline content representation is generated to be accessed by the client computing device when the client computing device is offline;

providing, by the network computing component, the processing result to the client computing device, the client computing device configured to cause the display of the representation of the network resource, wherein causing the display of the representation includes performing each of the plurality of processing actions not included in the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration; and

providing, by the network computing component, the offline content representation to an offline browse storage component, the offline browse storage component configured to store the offline content representation for access by the client computing device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the communication protocol identified by the client remote session browsing configuration is different than the communication protocol identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the communication protocol identified by the client remote session browsing configuration and the communication protocol identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration includes an HTML protocol, a Remote Desktop protocol, a Virtual Network Computing protocol, a Remote Frame Buffer protocol, or an X-Windows protocol.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining an offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource comprises determining an offline remote session browsing configuration based on a resource data format, a resource content type, a resource size, a software browser, 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.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component and the set of processing actions identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component are different.

6. A system for remote session browsing comprising:

one or more computer processors;

at least one computer memory accessible by at least one of the one or more computer processors;

a network computing component comprising an executable software module executed by the one or more computer processors, wherein the network computing component is operable to;

obtain a network resource from a content provider based on an identifier of the network resource included in a request for the network resource from a client computing device, wherein the network resource can be processed with a plurality of processing actions;

determine a client remote session browsing configuration and an offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource, wherein each of the client and offline remote session browsing configurations identify at least a communication protocol and a set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component;

process the network resource to generate a processing result corresponding to the determined client remote session browsing configuration and one or more offline content representations corresponding to the determined offline remote session browsing configuration,

wherein the processing result and offline content representation correspond to a representation of the network resource,

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,

wherein the one or more offline content representations are generated by performing the set of processing actions identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component, and

wherein the one or more offline content representations are generated to be accessed by the client computing device when the client computing device is offline;

transmit the 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; and

transmit the processing result to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is configured to cause the display of the representation of the network resource, wherein causing the display of the representation includes performing each of the plurality of processing actions not included in the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource based on information obtained from the offline browse storage component.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the information obtained from the offline browse storage component includes a pricing plan associated with the client computing device and wherein the offline remote session browsing configuration is based, at least in part, on the pricing plan.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the offline remote session browsing configuration identifies one or more processing actions to be performed at the client computing device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the client computing device is configured to perform the one or more processing actions identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the offline content representations transmitted by the network computing component corresponds to a static representation of the network resource.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the network computing component is further operable to determine the client 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.

13. The system of claim 6, wherein the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration includes at least one shared processing action performed during generation of the one or more offline content representations.

14. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more offline content representations are associated with a communication protocol including at least one of an HTML protocol, a Remote Desktop protocol, a Virtual Network Computing protocol, a Remote Frame Buffer protocol, and an X-Windows protocol.

15. The system of claim 6, wherein the client computing device is configured to obtain the offline content representation from the offline browse storage component.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the client computing device is configured to display a representation of the network resource based on the offline content representation.

17. The system of claim 6, wherein the network computing component is operable to schedule the transmission of the one or more offline content representations to an offline browse storage component.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the network computing component schedules the transmission of the one or more offline content representations to an offline browse storage component based, at least in part, on the transmission of the processing result to the client computing device.

19. Non-transitory computer-readable storage comprising executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a process comprising:

obtaining a network resource from a content provider based on an identifier of the network resource included in a request for the network resource from a client computing device, wherein the network resource can be processed with a plurality of processing actions;

determining a client remote session browsing configuration and an offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource, wherein each of the client and offline remote session browsing configurations identify at least a communication protocol and a set of processing actions of the plurality of processing actions to be performed at the network computing component;

processing the network resource to generate a processing result corresponding to the determined client remote session browsing configuration and one or more offline content representations corresponding to the determined offline remote session browsing configuration,

wherein the processing result and offline content representation correspond to a representation of the network resource,

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,

wherein the one or more offline content representations are generated by performing the set of processing actions identified by the offline remote session browsing configuration at the network computing component, and

wherein the one or more offline content representations are generated to be accessed by the client computing device when the client computing device is offline;

transmitting the 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; and

transmitting the processing result to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is configured to cause the display of the representation of the network resource, wherein causing the display of the representation includes performing each of the plurality of processing actions not included in the set of processing actions identified by the client remote session browsing configuration.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 19, the process further comprising determining the offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource based on information obtained from the offline browse storage component.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 20, 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.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 19, the process further comprising determining the offline remote session browsing configuration associated with the network resource responsive to a request for the offline content representation from the client computing device.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 19, 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.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 23 further comprising:

generating processing results 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.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 19, wherein the client computing device is configured to obtain the offline content representation from the offline browse storage component.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 25, wherein the client computing device is configured to display a representation of the network resource based on the offline content representation.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 19, 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.