SHARING AND CONSUMING WEB CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for sharing and consuming web content across multiple computing devices. Each device registers with an account on a cloud-based service using a unique identifier. When one of the registered devices requests a web page, a set of rules is processed by the cloud-based service to determine whether the page content should be shared with other registered devices. If the rules are satisfied, the cloud-based service requests and receives the content from a content provider in various formats that are compatible with each of the registered devices. Once all assets associated with the content are received by the cloud-based service, the content is shared by pushing the content out to each registered device in the compatible format. In some cases, the scroll position is adjusted automatically so that the user may resume reading at the same point where she left off with another registered device.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented data processing method comprising:
receiving, via a communications network, a first content request from a first device registered with a cloud-based service; applying a set of predetermined rules to the first content request to produce a second content request for content associated with the first content request to be returned in a first format compatible with the first device and a second format compatible with a second device registered with the cloud-based service; sending the second content request to a content provider; receiving, in response to the second content request, content associated with the second content request and formatted in the first format and the second format; and sending, via the communications network, the content formatted in the first format to the first device and the content formatted in the second format to the second device.