Techniques for zero rating through web reconstruction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9692909-B2
Application number	US-201514707903-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 8, 2015
Priority date	Mar 2, 2015
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

Techniques for zero rating through web reconstruction are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client access component operative to receive a web request from a client device, the web request for a web page hosted on a network server device; and transmit a zero-rating transformed web page to the client device in response to the web request; and a web reconstruction component operative on the processor circuit to retrieve the web page from the network server device; identify one or more non-zero-rated resource references in the retrieved web page; transform the one or more non-zero-rated resource references to form one or more zero-rated resource references; and replace the one or more non-zero-rated resource references with the one or more zero-rated resource references in the web page to form the zero-rating transformed web page. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, at a network interface on a web transform server device, a web request from a client device, the web request for a web page hosted on a network server device;
retrieving the web page from the network server device;
identifying one or more non-zero-rated resource references in the retrieved web page;
transforming the one or more non-zero-rated resource references to form one or more zero-rated resource references;
automatically replacing the one or more non-zero-rated resource references with the one or more zero-rated resource references in the web page to form a zero-rating transformed web page; and
transmitting the zero-rating transformed web page to the client device in response to the web request.

2. The method of claim 1 , the web request addressed to a domain name associated with the web transform server device, the one or more zero-rated resource references addressed to the domain name associated with the web transform server device.

3. The method of claim 1 , the web request addressed to a domain name associated a pool of server devices, the pool of server devices including the web transform server device, the one or more zero-rated resource references addressed to the domain name associated with the pool of server devices.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
retrieving a web cookie associated with the client device from a web cookie repository;
transmitting the web cookie to the network server device as part of retrieving the web page from the network server device.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
receiving a client web cookie from the client device;
extracting an encryption key from the client web cookie; and
decrypting the web cookie using the encryption key.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a web cookie from the network server device in association with retrieving the web page from the network server device; and
storing the web cookie in a web cookie repository in association with the client device.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying one or more additional non-zero-rated resource references in the retrieved web page;
determining that a zero-rating mapping record does not specify a zero-rated resource for the one or more additional non-zero-rated resource references; and
removing the one or more additional non-zero-rated resource references from the web page in forming the zero-rating transformed web page.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying one or more additional resource references in the retrieved web page;
determining that the additional resource references are of an executable media type; and
removing the additional resource references from the web page in forming the zero-rating transformed web page.

9. The method of claim 1 , an image resource reference comprising one of the one or more non-zero-rated resource references, the image resource reference indicating an image resource, further comprising:
transforming the image resource reference to form a zero-rated image resource reference, the zero-rated image resource reference comprising one of the one or more zero-rated resource references, the zero-rated image resource reference indicating a lower-file-size version of the image resource.

10. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor circuit on a web transform server device;
a network interface on the web transform server device;
client access logic operative on the processor circuit to receive, from the network interface, a web request from a client device, the web request for a web page hosted on a network server device; and transmit a zero-rating transformed web page to the client device in response to the web request; and
web reconstruction logic operative on the processor circuit to retrieve the web page from the network server device; identify one or more non-zero-rated resource references in the retrieved web page; transform the one or more non-zero-rated resource references to form one or more zero-rated resource references; and automatically replace the one or more non-zero-rated resource references with the one or more zero-rated resource references in the web page to form the zero-rating transformed web page.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , the web request addressed to a domain name associated a pool of server devices, the pool of server devices including the web transform server device, the one or more zero-rated resource references addressed to the domain name associated with the pool of server devices.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , the web reconstruction logic further operative to receive a web cookie from the network server device in association with retrieving the web page from the network server device; store the web cookie in a web cookie repository in association with the client device; retrieve the web cookie associated with the client device from the web cookie repository; and transmit the web cookie to the network server device as part of retrieving the web page from the network server device.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , the client access logic further operative to receive a client web cookie from the client device, the web reconstruction component further operative to extract an encryption key from the client web cookie; and decrypt the web cookie using the encryption key.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 , the web reconstruction logic further operative to identify one or more additional resource references in the retrieved web page; determine that the additional resource references are of an executable media type; and remove the additional resource references from the web page in forming the zero-rating transformed web page.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 , an image resource reference comprising one of the one or more non-zero-rated resource references, the image resource reference indicating an image resource, the web reconstruction component further operative to transform the image resource reference to form a zero-rated image resource reference, the zero-rated image resource reference comprising one of the one or more zero-rated resource references, the zero-rated image resource reference indicating a lower-file-size version of the image resource.

16. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:
receive, at a network interface on a web transform server device, a web request from a client device, the web request for a web page hosted on a network server device;
retrieve the web page from the network server device;
identify one or more non-zero-rated resource references in the retrieved web page;
transform the one or more non-zero-rated resource references to form one or more zero-rated resource references;
automatically replace the one or more non-zero-rated resource references with the one or more zero-rated resource references in the web page to form a zero-rating transformed web page; and
transmit the zero-rating transformed web page to the client device in response to the web request.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , comprising further instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:
receive a web cookie from the network server device in association with retrieving the web page from the network server device;
store the web cookie in a web cookie repository in association with the client device;
retrieve the web cookie associated with the client device from the web cookie repository; and
transmit th

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Tubi Lior
• Naar Dekel Schmuel
• Tiger Roi
• Rosen Guy
• Lauer Joshua Ryan
• Wei Xiaoliang

Classifications

• H04L67/146

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• H04L67/2866

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