Request routing for a modularized front-end

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10165038-B2
Application number	US-201615086533-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2016
Priority date	Mar 31, 2016
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

This disclosure provides for a client-server paradigm where a server identifies a layout for a requested webpage from one or more header parameter values obtained from the initial request for the webpage from a client. The server obtains local and remote measures from the one or more header parameter values. The server then evaluates the local and remote measures, where the local measures are evaluated locally and the remote measures require further communications with other systems, databases, and/or architectures to be evaluated. Once the local measures are evaluated, the server engages in predictive communications by requesting those layouts which satisfy the evaluated local measures. When the remote measures have been evaluated, the server then selects the layout configuration that satisfies both the local and remote measures. This selected layout, along with the resources associated with the requested webpage, are then communicated to the client.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a machine-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions; and
at least one hardware processor communicatively coupled to the machine-readable medium that, when the computer-executable instructions are executed, configures the system to:
extract one or more parameter values from a request for a webpage;
identify the extracted one or more parameter values as one or more local measures and one or more remote measures;
evaluate the one or more local measures to obtain a first set of one or more corresponding layout property values, at least one of the first set of one or more layout property values specifying a characteristic of a layout for the requested webpage;
request one or more layout configurations according to the first set of one or more layout property values;
while the one or more layout configurations are being requested, evaluate one or more remote measures to obtain a second set of one or more corresponding layout property values;
identify a layout configuration selected from the one or more requested layout configurations according to the second set of one or more corresponding layout property values;
communicate the identified layout configuration to a client device for displaying the requested webpage according to the identified layout configuration.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is further configured to:
retrieve a plurality of modules for displaying the requested webpage, at least one of the modules being displayable within a portion of the requested webpage defined by the identified layout configuration; and
communicate the retrieved plurality of modules to the client device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the identified layout configuration and the retrieved plurality of modules are communicated asynchronously to the client device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein a local measure comprises a parameter value that is locally evaluated by the at least one hardware processor without communicating the local measure using a network communication protocol.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein a remote measure comprises a parameter value that is communicated to a non-local system using a network communication protocol for evaluation.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more parameter values are obtained from one or more Hypertext Transfer Protocol header fields of the request for the webpage.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the requested one or more layout configurations are each associated with a third set of layout property values, each set of layout property values for each of the sets of the third set of layout property values being unique.

8. A method comprising:
extracting, by at least one hardware processor; one or more parameter values from a request for a webpage;
identifying, by at least one hardware processor, the extracted one or more parameter values as one or more local measures and one or more remote measures;
evaluating, by at least one hardware processor, the one or more local measures to obtain a first set of one or more corresponding layout property values, at least one of the first set of one or more layout property values specifying a characteristic of a layout for the requested webpage;
requesting, by at least one hardware processor, one or more layout configurations according to the first set of one or more layout property values;
while the one or more layout configurations are being requested, evaluating, by at least one hardware processor, one or more remote measures to obtain a second set of one or more corresponding layout property values;
identifying, by at least one hardware processor, a layout configuration selected from the one or more requested layout configurations according to the second set of one or more corresponding layout property values;
communicating, by at least one hardware processor, the identified layout configuration to a client device for displaying the requested webpage according to the identified layout configuration.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
retrieving a plurality of modules for displaying the requested webpage, at least one of the modules being displayable within a portion of the requested webpage defined by the identified layout configuration; and
communicating the retrieved plurality of modules to the client device.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the identified layout configuration and the retrieved plurality of modules are communicated asynchronously to the client device.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein a local measure comprises a parameter value that is locally evaluated without communicating the local measure using a network communication protocol.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein a remote measure comprises a parameter value that is communicated to a non-local system using a network communication protocol for evaluation.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more parameter values are obtained from one or more Hypertext Transfer Protocol header fields of the request for the webpage.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the requested one or more layout configurations are each associated with a third set of layout property values, each set of layout property values for each of the sets of the third set of layout property values being unique.

15. A non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one hardware processor communicatively coupled to the machine-readable medium, configures a system to perform a plurality of operations, the operations comprising:
extracting one or more parameter values from a request for a webpage;
identifying the extracted one or more parameter values as one or more local measures and one or more remote measures;
evaluating the one or more local measures to obtain a first set of one or more corresponding layout property values, at least one of the first set of one or more layout property values specifying a characteristic of a layout for the requested webpage;
requesting one or more layout configurations according to the first set of one or more layout property values;
while the one or more layout configurations are being requested, evaluating one or more remote measures to obtain a second set of one or more corresponding layout property values;
identifying a layout configuration selected from the one or more requested layout configurations according to the second set of one or more corresponding layout property values;
communicating the identified layout configuration to a client device for displaying the requested webpage according to the identified layout configuration.

16. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of operations further comprise:
retrieving a plurality of modules for displaying the requested webpage, at least one of the modules being displayable within a portion of the requested webpage defined by the identified layout configuration; and
communicating the retrieved plurality of modules to the client device.

17. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the identified layout configuration and the retrieved plurality of modules are communicated asynchronously to the client device.

18. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein a local measure comprises a parameter value that is locally evaluated by the at least one hardware processor without communicating the local measure using a network communication protocol.

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Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Margatan James

Classifications

• H04L69/22

  Parsing or analysis of headers · CPC title

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L67/565

  Conversion or adaptation of application format or content (adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561) · CPC title

• H04L69/12

  Protocol engines · CPC title