US 9,288,125 B2Granted

Application control of embedded web content execution

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsBogdan Brinza, Tony E. Schreiner, Tyler M. Barton, Michael Wayne Jackson

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Abstract

Web content is displayed concurrently with application content of an application that is hosting the web content. The web content includes at least some content that can be executed or run, such as a script. Performance of the web content is monitored, such as by monitoring the amount of time the web content has been executing and/or an amount of memory used by the web content. Feedback regarding the performance of the web content is provided to the application hosting the web content, and the application can determine whether and/or how to alter execution of the web content based on the performance of the web content. Execution of the web content can be altered in various manners, such as by throttling execution of the web content or ceasing execution of the web content.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

obtaining multiple instances of web content, at least one of the multiple instances of web content including a script;
displaying the multiple instances of web content embedded in an application concurrently with content of the application, including displaying a result of execution of the script, the multiple instances of displayed web content each having a different source;
receiving, from the application, a trigger value;
monitoring an amount of time the script has been executing against the trigger value;
providing feedback to the application regarding performance for each of the respective multiple instances of displayed web content responsive to the trigger value being satisfied for as long as the web content is executing;
allowing the application to alter execution of the web content in response to the feedback, the allowing the application to alter execution of the web content comprising terminating execution of a first instance of the displayed web content without altering execution of a second instance of the displayed web content;
and
ceasing to provide feedback to the application regarding performance for the first instance of web content when the first instance of web content is no longer executing.

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A computing device comprising:

one or more processors;
a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon multiple instructions that, responsive to execution by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
obtaining multiple instances of web content, at least one of the multiple instances of web content including a script;
concurrently displaying both application content and the multiple instances of web content embedded in the application content, including displaying a result of execution of the script, the multiple instances of displayed web content each having a different source;
monitoring an amount of time the script has been executing;
providing to the application, at regular or irregular intervals, one or more indications of performance for each of the respective multiple instances of displayed web content, including at least indications of how long the script has been executing;
sending a notification to the application when the one or more indications of performance satisfy a trigger value;
receiving a termination indication to terminate execution of the script from the application;
and
terminating execution of the script in response to the termination indication from the application without altering execution of another instance of web content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.