Remote Browsing Session Management for Historical Web Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current browsers lack the ability to effectively display and manage historical versions of web pages, limiting users' ability to view changes over time and requiring manual retrieval of current versions, which does not account for changes in content.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates and manages remote browsing sessions, allowing clients to access historical content records stored on a network computing provider, which processes and indexes historical browse content, enabling interactive displays of changes between versions with visual indicators.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If browsers store only basic identifying information (URL, title) of previously viewed web pages, then storage space is conserved, but users cannot view changes to the web page over time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and stores snapshots of web page content at specific points in time, separating the historical content preservation function from the basic browsing function. This allows the system to capture and retain visual representations of web pages as they appeared at different times, enabling users to view changes over time without storing complete versions of every page indefinitely.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary capture of web page snapshots when pages are first visited or at scheduled intervals, preparing historical content in advance. This preliminary action stores visual representations of pages before changes occur, allowing users to later compare and view historical versions without requiring the original pages to still exist or change.
2Productivity
If users manually retrieve current versions of web pages, then they can access updated content, but they cannot view changes over time and must repeatedly access the same URLs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates and stores copies of web page content in the form of snapshots at different points in time. These copies preserve the visual appearance and content of pages as they existed when captured, allowing users to retrieve and compare historical versions without needing to repeatedly visit the original URLs or manually track changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a temporal dimension to web page storage by organizing snapshots chronologically. This dimensional transformation allows users to navigate through time and view historical versions of pages, converting the traditional single-point-in-time web browsing model into a multi-temporal viewing experience that displays evolution of content over time.
3Loss of energy
If search results are provided as text with static images, then data transmission is efficient, but users lack interactive visual comparison capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static search result images into dynamic, interactive visual comparisons. The system enables users to interactively compare snapshots across different time periods, highlighting changes between versions through visual indicators. This dynamic approach maintains efficient data transmission while significantly enhancing ease of operation by allowing users to actively explore and understand content evolution.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color changes and visual indicators to highlight differences between historical and current web page versions. By applying color coding to show additions, deletions, and modifications, the patent provides intuitive visual feedback that enhances user understanding of content changes without requiring extensive data transmission or complex interactions.
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AI summary
A remote browsing and searching process is directed to the generation and 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, or search results corresponding to content representations associated with current content, or to both. The network computing and storage provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, based on navigation paths of other client computing devices, based on 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.