Predicting user navigation events in a browser using directed graphs

摘要

A method and system for predicting a next navigation event are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by predicting the next navigation event. The system and method may then prerender content associated with the next navigation event. For example, the method and system may predict a likely next uniform resource locator during web browsing to preemptively request content from the network before the user selects the corresponding link on a web page. The methods describe a variety of manners of predicting the next navigation event, including examining individual and aggregate historical data, text entry prediction, and cursor input monitoring.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for predicting a user navigation event, comprising:
generating, using a processor, a mapping between a directed graph and a navigation history, the navigation history comprising one or more previous navigation events associated with a browser, an edge of the directed graph being weighted by a count value representing a number of times a navigation event has occurred from a source vertex to a destination vertex coupled to the edge; identifying a confidence value for one or more given navigation events using the directed graph, the confidence value representing a probability of a likely navigation event; and prerendering at least one of the one or more given navigation events as the likely navigation event based on the confidence value, wherein the confidence value of the likely navigation event exceeds a threshold value.