A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote persistent browsing context at a network computing provider. A client computing device requests a remote persistent browsing context instance at a network computing provider. The network computing provider provides processing results corresponding to processed representations of requested content to the client computing device. The persistent browsing context may be maintained at the network computing provider subsequent to the user ending his interaction with the browser application at the client device. A client computing device may subsequently request access to the persistent browsing context maintained at the network computing and storage device.

Remote browsing session management

A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing provider. The network computing and storage provider processes the requested content for display, and provides a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device for display. The network computing provider further provides a historical content representation corresponding to the requested content to a historical browse storage component for storage. The network computing provider may further provide historical content representations to the historical browse storage component for content directly or indirectly referenced by the requested content. The client computing device may subsequently search for content not previously displayed by the client computing device.

Historical browsing session management

Systems, methods and interfaces for the selective management of information collected by a browser are provided. The browser obtains a network resource, such as a Web page, from a content provider, and collects information associated with the display and interaction with the content by a user. The browser presents, among other controls, a graphical icon that is representative of an integrated command to remove information collected while accessing a first network resource and to cause the browser application to access a second accessed network resource, Upon receipt of an input corresponding to the selection of the graphical icon, the browser deletes information collected while accessing the first network resource and accesses the second network resource.

Managing information associated with network resources

Various features are provided for assisting users in efficiently locating and viewing network content of interest, including but not limited to particular portions of web pages. The features are particularly useful for users of mobile computing devices having a limited display size, but may be used with any type of client device. Some features identify popular content items by collectively analyzing the interactive behaviors of a population of users, such as zooming interactions. The results of such analysis can be used in various ways to improve users' browsing experiences. For example, popular content items can be highlighted on a web page, an option to zoom in automatically on popular content items can be provided, popular content items may be rendered at relatively high resolution, and caching of content items may be based partly on a measure of their popularity.

Zooming interaction tracking and popularity determination

Provided herein is a method, which may include an indication that is received that a view of a task is presented by a first device. State information may be provided to a second device to permit the second device to be synchronized with the first device and to present a view of the task, either the same view or a different view than that presented by the first device. Information may also be received relating to a change in state of the task that is provided by one of the devices while a first view of the task is presented thereupon. Further, updated state information may be provided to another one of the devices to cause the other device to remain synchronized and to update a second view of the task that is presented.

Method and apparatus for synchronizing tasks performed by multiple devices

People spend a lot of time navigating on the web. When moving from one computer device to another, it would be useful to have access to the navigation data produced in the previous web session. In this article, a synchronization service of navigation data, called Browserver, is presented. It is responsible for keeping user navigation information (tabs, history, forms, cookies, etc.) so that it can be recovered from any device connected to the Internet. Finally, Browserver performance is compared to a similar service, according to hardware and network consumption metrics.

Leandro G. de Carvalho

Papers

Synchronizing web browsing data with Browserver