Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques

• US 9,307,007 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2013
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kapadia, Ritika, Kudallur, Venkatraman V, Paul, Nomita, Mao, Qiaolin, Ke, Yan, Hu, Hao, Patankar, Aniket A, Barton, Tyler M, Pickett, Shawn E, Wordelman, James R, Chor, Anthony T
• Primary Examiner(s): SCOTT, RANDY A
• Application Number:
  US13/918,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/213, 709/218, 715/738, 715/815, 715/863
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
• 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

Abstract

Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

predicting a likelihood of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on;

monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses; and

computing a confidence score; and

determining whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction and comparing the confidence score to one or more thresholds and by at least one of;

responsive to a determination that the confidence score meets a pre-render threshold for the subsequent navigation, causing the content associated with the network address to be pre-fetched and pre-rendered by the computing device;

or

responsive to a determination that the confidence score meets a pre-fetch threshold for the subsequent navigation but does not meet the pre-render threshold for the subsequent navigation, causing the content associated with the network address to be pre-fetched but not pre-rendered by the computing device.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the one or more network addresses are a current network address accessed by the computing device.

3. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising pre-fetching and pre-rendering the content responsive to a comparison of the confidence score with a pre-render threshold that is indicative of the likelihood of subsequent navigation to the content.

4. A method as described in claim 3, wherein:

the pre-fetching includes obtaining the content from the network address; and

the pre-rendering includes parsing an HTML and running dynamic scripts of the obtained content to arrive at a form of the content that is ready for display by a display device of the computing device.

5. A method as described in claim 4, wherein the pre-rendering is performed in associated with a tab in a user interface that is not visible to a user and further comprising replacing content of a currently viewable tab with the rendered content in the tab responsive to an input to navigate to the network address.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the pre-fetch threshold is indicative of a lower likelihood of the subsequent navigation than a pre-render threshold.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the predicting is performed using one or more rules including a rule configured to identify a particular sequence of monitored navigation performed by the computing device at one or more network addresses.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein at least one of the rules is configured to identify a type of link included in content to be used as a basis for the prediction but not a particular network address associated with the link.

9. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the one or more rules are received from a network service, the one or more rules generated based on data described monitored navigation performed by a plurality of different computing devices.

10. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the monitored navigation describes a sequence of network addresses that have been accessed by the computing device.

11. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the predicting and the determining are performed locally by the computing device.

12. A method as described in claim 7, wherein at least one of the rules is configured to identify that multiple links are associated with a same network address.

13. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer readable storage media storing program instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

computing a confidence score indicating a relative likelihood of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses;

responsive to a determination that the confidence score meets a pre-render threshold for the subsequent navigation, causing the content associated with the network address to be pre-fetched and pre-rendered by the computing device; and

responsive to a determination that the confidence score meets a pre-fetch threshold for the subsequent navigation but does not meet the pre-render threshold for the subsequent navigation, causing the content associated with the network address to be pre-fetched but not pre-rendered by the computing device.

14. A system as described in claim 13, wherein the computing is performed using one or more rules that is configured to identify a type of link included in content to be used as a basis for the prediction but not a particular network address associated with the link or are generated based on data described monitored navigation performed by a plurality of different computing devices.

15. A system as described in claim 13, wherein:

the pre-fetching includes obtaining the content from the network address; and

the pre-rendering includes parsing an HTML and running dynamic scripts of the obtain content to arrive at a form of the content that is ready for display by a display device of the computing device.

16. A system as described in claim 13, wherein the one or more processors are accessible via a network by the computing device.

17. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer readable storage media storing program instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

generating navigation data based on monitored navigation performed by a plurality of different computing devices to access a plurality of different network addresses, the navigation data including one or more rules that include a rule configured to identify a type of link included in content to be used as a basis for the prediction but not a particular network address associated with the link; and

exposing the navigation data for use by a computing device to predict subsequent navigation by the computing device to one or more network addresses, at least part of the predicted navigation not involving a link included in a current content item accessed by the computing device.

18. A system as described in claim 17, wherein one or more rules included in the navigation data further include a rule generated based on data describing monitored navigation performed by a plurality of different computing devices.

19. A system as described in claim 17, wherein the prediction of the subsequent navigation by the computing device is performed as part of a determination of whether to pre-render content associated with the subsequent navigation by the computing device.

20. A system as described in claim 17, wherein the prediction of the subsequent navigation by the computing device is performed as part of a determination of whether to pre-fetch content associated with the subsequent navigation by the computing device.

21. A system as described in claim 17, wherein the one or more rules included in the navigation data further include a rule generated based on data describing content obtained via at least one of the plurality of network address.