Historical browsing session management

• US 9,253,284 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2013
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Brett R., Hamilton, James R.
• Primary Examiner(s): LU, KUEN S
• Application Number:
  US14/083,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20140082019A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 707/722
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/64 Browsing; Visualisation therefor generation of a list or set of audio data G06F16/638
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

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 network computing and storage provider processes the requested content for display, and provides a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device for display. The network computing provider further provides a historical content representation corresponding to the requested content to a historical browse storage component for storage. The network computing provider may further provide historical content representations to the historical browse storage component for content directly or indirectly referenced by the requested content. The client computing device may subsequently search for content not previously displayed by the client computing device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

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

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

obtain one or more historical content representations associated with a client computing device, each of the one or more historical content representations comprising a historical version of content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device, at a time that the previously requested content was requested by the client computing device;

identify at least one historical content representation of the one or more historical content representations based at least partly on a determination that the at least one historical content representation has not previously been provided to the client computing device, wherein the at least one historical content representation comprises a historical version of content indirectly referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device, at the time that the previously requested content was requested by the client computing device; and

provide the at least one historical content representation to the client computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is further configured to obtain a search request from the client computing device, wherein the search request includes a request for content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the search request includes a segment of text, a date, a content type, a browse session identifier, a user identifier, a browser identifier, a client computing device identifier, a storage location, or a tag.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the search request includes an identifier associated with a first historical content representation.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more historical content representations was not previously accessed by the client computing device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more historical content representations was not previously displayed at the client computing device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the network computing component is further configured to exclude historical versions of the content previously requested by the client computing device from the at least one historical content representation.

8. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of one or more server computing devices configured to execute specific instructions,

obtaining a search request from a client computing device, wherein the search request corresponds to a request for content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device;

identifying at least one historical content representation comprising a historical version of the content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device, of one or more historical content representations satisfying the request, at a time that the previously requested content was requested by the client computing device, wherein the at least one historical content representation is identified based at least partly on a determination that the at least one historical content representation has not previously been provided to the client computing device, and wherein at least one of the one or more historical content representations comprises a historical version of content indirectly referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device, from the time that the previously requested content was previously requested by the client computing device; and

providing the at least one historical content representation to the client computing device, the at least one historical content representation comprising a representation the version of content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the search request includes a segment of text, a date, a content type, a browse session identifier, a user identifier, a browser identifier, a client computing device identifier, a storage location, or a tag.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the search request includes an identifier associated with a first historical content representation.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the at least one historical content representation was not previously accessed by the client computing device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the at least one historical content representation was not previously displayed at the client computing device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising excluding representations of the content previously requested by the client computing device from the at least one historical content representation.

14. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computer systems, configure the one or more computer systems to perform operations comprising.

obtaining one or more historical content representations associated with a client computing device, each of the one or more historical content representations comprising a historical version of content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device, at a time that the previously requested content was requested by the client computing device;

identifying at least one historical content representation of the one or more historical content representations based at least partly on a determination that the at least one historical content representation has not previously been provided to the client computing device, wherein the at least one historical content representation comprises a historical version of content indirectly referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device, at the time that the previously requested content was requested by the client computing device; and

providing at least one historical content representation of the one or more historical content representations to the client computing device.

15. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise obtaining a search request from the client computing device, wherein the search request includes a request for content referenced by content previously requested by the client computing device.

16. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the search request includes a segment of text, a date, a content type, a browse session identifier, a user identifier, a browser identifier, a client computing device identifier, a storage location, or a tag.

17. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the search request includes an identifier associated with a first historical content representation.

18. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 14, wherein the one or more historical content representations were not previously accessed by the client computing device.

19. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 14, wherein the one or more historical content representations were not previously displayed at the client computing device.

20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise excluding historical versions of the content previously requested by the client computing device from the at least one historical content representation.