User influenced asynchronous module definition loader

• US 9,378,298 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2013
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ivory, Andrew J., Kaplinger, Todd E., Shook, Aaron K., Stecher, David M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ludwig, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/066,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20140250367A1
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• Field of Search: 715/204, 715/234, 715/253
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226

Abstract

Embodiments relate to prioritizing the loading of a portion of a web page based on a user designation. An aspect includes providing a user interface for controlling page loading. A user selection of a portion of a web page is received at a server for priority loading. Accordingly, the loading of the portion of the web page is then prioritized based on the user selection. Embodiments further disclose measuring page loading analytics for a plurality of users. The loading of a portion of a web page may be prioritized based on the measured page loading analytics for the plurality of users. Responsive to subsequent page accesses from one of the plurality of users, the prioritized portion of the page is loaded.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request for a web page, the request being sent from a user via a browser;

sending, by the server computer, a subset of a plurality of document object model (DOM) elements of the web page to the browser, wherein the sending comprises processing a plurality of asynchronous data requests corresponding to the web page in an order that is based on a DOM loading priority of a DOM tree of the web page;

receiving, at the server computer, a user selection of a DOM element of the subset of the plurality of DOM elements of the web page for priority loading after sending the subset of the plurality of DOM elements of the web page to the browser, wherein the selection was made by the user based on the sent subset of the plurality of DOM elements of the web page;

reordering, at the server computer, the processing of the remaining asynchronous data requests corresponding to the webpage based on the user selection;

sending, by the server computer, the selected DOM element and at least one child of the selected DOM element to the browser based on the reordering; and

after sending the selected DOM element and the at least one child of the selected DOM element to the browser, sending all remaining DOM elements of the DOM tree of the web page based on the reordering, such that loading of the web page is completed in the browser based on sending all of the remaining DOM elements.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

recalling the user selection for subsequent access to the web page, such that the selected DOM element and at least one child of the selected DOM element are sent to the browser before any other DOM elements of the DOM tree of the web page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection is configured as a hot key combined with a mouse scroll-over to select the portion of the web page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection is configured as a touch screen gesture to select the portion of the web page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

completing any prerequisite reference calls after receiving the user selection and before sending the selected DOM element.