US 10,706,119 B1Granted

Content prefetching to user devices based on rendering characteristics

AssigneeTensera Networks Ltd.

InventorsDaniel Yellin, David Ben Eli, Eilon Regev, Shimon Moshavi

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Abstract

An apparatus for content delivery includes a network interface and one or more processors. The network interface is configured for communicating over a communication network. The processors are configured to identify rendering characteristics of a plurality of content items that are to be displayed together as a User-Interface (UI) unit on a user device, to assign the content items to (i) a first subset including one or more content items that are to be prefetched, and (ii) a second subset including one or more content items that are not to be prefetched, to prefetch the content items of the first subset irrespective of any request from a user of the user device to access the UI unit, to fetch the content items of the second subset in response to a request from the user to access the UI unit, and to present the UI unit.

Claims28

Dependent claims

An apparatus for content delivery, comprising:

a network interface for communicating over a communication network;
and
one or more processors, configured to:
for a plurality of content items that are to be displayed together as a User-Interface (UI) unit on a user device, assess visibility metrics that are indicative of one or more of (i) respective time durations and (ii) respective amounts of user actions, needed to make the content items visible to a user of the user device, wherein the visibility metrics are assessed relative to one or more of (i) absolute locations of the content items in the UI unit, (ii) a portion of the UI unit that is currently displayed on a screen of the user device, (iii) a launcher of the UI unit, (iv) a home screen of the launcher, and (v) a landing page of the UI unit;
assign the visibility metrics to the content items as rendering characteristics;
based on the rendering characteristics, assign the plurality of content items to:
(i) a first subset comprising one or more content items that are to be prefetched to the user device over the communication network;
and
(ii) a second subset comprising one or more content items that are not to be prefetched to the user device;
prefetch the content items of the first subset irrespective of any request from a user of the user device to access the UI unit, and fetch the content items of the second subset over the communication network in response to a request from the user to access the UI unit;
and
present the UI unit to the user, including both the prefetched first subset and the fetched second subset.

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A method for content delivery, comprising:

for a plurality of content items that are to be displayed together as a User-Interface (UI) unit on a user device, assessing visibility metrics that are indicative of one or more of (i) respective time durations and (ii) respective amounts of user actions, needed to make the content items visible to a user of the user device, including assessing the visibility metrics relative to one or more of (i) absolute locations of the content items in the UI unit, (ii) a portion of the UI unit that is currently displayed on a screen of the user device, (iii) a launcher of the UI unit, (iv) a home screen of the launcher, and (v) a landing page of the UI unit;
assigning the visibility metrics to the content items as rendering characteristics;
based on the rendering characteristics, assigning the plurality of content items to:
(i) a first subset comprising one or more content items that are to be prefetched to the user device over a communication network;
and
(ii) a second subset comprising one or more content items that are not to be prefetched to the user device;
prefetching the content items of the first subset irrespective of any request from a user of the user device to access the UI unit, and fetching the content items of the second subset over the communication network in response to a request from the user to access the UI unit;
and
presenting the UI unit to the user, including both the prefetched first subset and the fetched second subset.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/010,561Filed 18 Jun 2018 · continuation in part
Priority: 30 Apr 2015
Granted: 7 Jul 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 16/9574
Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation: of access to content, e.g. by caching
G06F 16/287
Clustering or classification: visualization; Browsing
H04L 67/5681
Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching: pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics
G06F
Computing and data processing

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