Bandwidth reduction through delivery of hardware-independent graphics commands for portions of content pages
US9563928B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 22, 2014 |
| Grant date | Feb 7, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 6, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T1/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Server systems are disclosed that receive content request and respond with hardware-independent graphics commands instead of, or in addition to, unprocessed content items. Some server systems may act as intermediaries between user devices and content sources. The server systems can obtain content pages from content sources, process the content pages (e.g., using a headless browser), and provide hardware-independent graphics commands (e.g., vector graphics commands, that do not require specialized graphics hardware for execution) to user devices in response to requests for content. The hardware-independent graphics commands can be executed by client browsers to generate a representation of the content page that is the same or substantially the same as the representation that would have been generated by processing the content pages locally. A user device in receipt of such hardware-independent graphics commands can execute them without performing traditional content page processing, thereby improving user-perceived page load times.
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