Systems and methods of efficiently preloading documents to client devices
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsBjorn Marius Aamodt Erikson, Othman Laraki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Hanping Feng, Jeffrey Glen Rennie, Denis Lee Severson
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Abstract
Documents are preloaded from a server to a client device before the client device submits a request for the preloaded documents. The server predicts which documents to preload based on past user browsing activities at the client device and document layouts. At the client device, specific graphical features may be applied to the links to the preloaded documents such that a user can easily tell which document link is associated with the preloaded documents.
Claims12
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- at a server computer having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors:
- selecting a first document when a user at the client device moves a mouse cursor along a predetermined mouse trajectory towards a region containing a link to the first document that is located in a second document;
- and
- at the server computer's initiative, initiating preloading the first document to a client device before the mouse reaches the region.
A system for serving documents to a user at a client device, comprising:
- memory;
- one or more processors;
- and
- at least one program stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, the at least one program further including:
- instructions for selecting a first document when a user at the client device moves a mouse cursor along a predetermined mouse trajectory towards a region containing a link to the first document that is located in a second document;
- and
- instructions for initiating preloading the first document to a client device before the mouse reaches the region.
A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured for execution by one or more processors of a computer system, the one or more programs comprising:
- instructions for selecting a first document when a user at the client device moves a mouse cursor along a predetermined mouse trajectory towards a region containing a link to the first document that is located in a second document;
- and
- instructions for initiating preloading the first document to a client device before the mouse reaches the region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.