US 11,057,494 B2Granted

Seamless context switch

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsPeng Zhuang, Yi Meng

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for switching contexts in a browser-based application. In one aspect, a system includes a browser execution module configured to receive a request to load a browser-based application with first context data, request application data and the first context data, and receive the application data and the first context data. The system includes a state machine module configured to generate a state machine to access and store context data and load the application with the first context data by storing the first context data in the state machine. The system further includes a state change module configured to intercept a request to load the application with second context data for a second application account, request the second context data, and updated the application with the second context data by storing the second context data in the state machine.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the least one processor to:
execute, via a client device, application data and first context data for a first application account to run a browser-based application in a browser;
during execution of the application data and the first context data for the first application account, receive a request to load the browser-based application with the application data and second context data for a second application account;
in response to receiving the request to load the browser-based application with the application data and the second context data for the second application account:
intercept the request to load the browser-based application with the application data and the second context data for the second application account;
store the first context data in a state machine;
transmit, to a server, an alternate request for the second context data without requesting the application data;
and
receive, from the server, and responsive to transmitting the alternate request, the second context data for the second application account;
and
in response to receiving the second context data for the second application account:
load the running browser-based application with the second context data without reloading the browser-based application.

11 more elements

A method implemented by one or more processors comprising:

executing, via a client device, application data and first context data for a first application account to run a browser-based application in a browser;
during execution of the application data and the first context data for the first application account, receiving a request to load the browser-based application with the application data and second context data for a second application account;
in response to receiving the request to load the browser-based application with the application data and the second context data for the second application account:
intercepting the request to load the browser-based application with the application data and the second context data for the second application account;
storing the first context data in a state machine;
transmitting, to a server, an alternate request for the second context data without requesting the application data;
and
receiving, from the server, and responsive to transmitting the alternate request, the second context data for the second application account;
and
in response to receiving the second context data for the second application account:
loading the running browser-based application with the second context data without reloading the browser-based application.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/883,462Filed 26 May 2020 · continuation
Priority: 28 Feb 2017
Published: US 2020/0287988 A110 Sep 2020
Granted: 6 Jul 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 9/445
Arrangements for executing specific programs: program loading or initiating
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/60
Network services: scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the…
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application15/445,320Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Feb 2017
US 2020/0287988 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Sep 2020
US 10,715,629 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0248974 A1Published application
US 11,057,494 B2This patent

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