Behavior based processing of content

摘要

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 analyzes 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.

主权项

1. A system for popularity-based processing of network content, the system comprising:
a proxy server comprising hardware configured to execute specific instructions, the proxy server operable to:
receive, from a client computing device, a request for a content page;retrieve the content page requested by the client computing device;identify, based at least in part on prior user interactions with the content page, including zoom interactions in which users zoom-in on particular portions of the page, a portion of the content page that is unpopular relative to other portions of the content page; andin response to identifying the relatively unpopular portion of the content page:
adjust a quality characteristic of the relatively unpopular portion, wherein adjusting the quality characteristic comprises generating a reduced-resolution representation of the relatively unpopular portion; andtransmit, to the client computing device, a modified version of the content page, the modified version comprising the reduced resolution representation of the relatively unpopular portion such that a page load time is reduced.