Remote browsing and searching

• US 9,529,784 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2014
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hayden, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US14/148,464
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344660A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• 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: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

A remote browsing and searching process is directed to the management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. Responsive to a search request, the network computing provider provides search results corresponding to historical content representations associated with content previously requested by the client computing device, search results corresponding to content representations associated with current content, or to data about changes in the content. The network computing provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, navigation paths of other client computing devices, relationships or differences between various versions of content, or based on any number of other factors. Interactive displays may be provided to client computing devices, allowing a user to refine the search results, zoom and manipulate content representations, and view relationships, similarities, and differences in content representations.

Claims

1. A system for summarizing differences between versions of a web page, the system comprising one or more computing devices programmed to at least:

determine one or more differences between a plurality of versions of a web page, wherein each of the plurality of versions is created at a different time; and

cause display of an object graphically summarizing a measurement of differences between the plurality of versions of the web page with respect to time, wherein the object comprises one or more graphical indicators representing the measurement of differences in the web page over a period of time.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of versions of the web page is obtained in response to a request from the one or more computing devices, and wherein a representation of each version is stored in an electronic data store.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one difference comprises a difference in a portion of text between two versions of the web page.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one difference comprises a difference in a visual representation included in two versions of the web page.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the object graphically summarizing the measurement of differences between the versions of the web page with respect to time is one of a bar chart, line chart, or pie chart.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more graphical indicators representing the measurement of differences between the versions of in the web page over the period of time comprises a bar, point, colored portion, or geometrical area.

7. A computer-implemented method for summarizing differences between network resources, the method comprising:

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

obtaining data regarding a measurement of differences between a plurality of versions of a plurality of network resources, wherein the plurality of network resources are related, and wherein the differences are differences between versions of a single network resource;

causing the display of a plurality of objects, each object corresponding to one of the plurality of network resources, wherein each object represents the measurement of differences between the plurality of versions of the corresponding network resource; and

causing the display of a plurality of connections, each connection graphically associating two or more objects with each other, wherein each connection represents a shared property of the network resources represented by each of the associated objects.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein a network resource comprises at least one of a web page, image, video, animation, applet, or document.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of objects comprises a color representing the measurement of differences between the plurality of versions of the corresponding network resource.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of objects comprises a numeral representing the measurement of differences between the plurality of versions of the corresponding network resource.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of objects comprises a representation of the content of the corresponding network resource.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein a relationship between a plurality of resources comprises one of a common source, a common host, or a common subject matter.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the shared property comprises one of the subject matter of the content of the network resources, the source of the network resources, the creation date of the network resources, or the edit date of the network resources.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein a difference between versions of a network resource comprises a difference in at least a portion of textual content of at least two of the plurality of versions of the network resource.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein a difference between versions of a network resource comprises a difference in at least a portion of visual content of at least two of the plurality of versions of the network resource.

16. A computer-implemented method for summarizing geographical differences between browsing data, the method comprising:

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

obtaining data regarding a plurality of network resource requests originating from a plurality of client computing devices, wherein each network resource request comprises an indicator of a geographical location of a client computing device from which the network resource request originated; and

determining, between two or more of the plurality of client computing devices, a common characteristic associated with at least one network resource request from each of the two or more client computing devices, wherein the two or more client computing devices are in geographical proximity to each other.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein a network resource comprises at least one of a web page, image, video, animation, applet, or document.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, further comprising causing display of an object graphically representing a geographic relationship between the client computing devices associated with the common characteristic.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein a network resource request further comprises data regarding one or more technical capabilities of the client computing device from which the network resource request originated, and wherein the common characteristic comprises at least one technical capability.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the common characteristic comprises the requested network resource.