Patents by Inventor Timo Burkard

Timo Burkard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11032388
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for prerendering web content are described. A computing device determines a navigation event within a web browser based at least in part on a prerender tag embedded within a web page. The prerender tag includes a ranking value used to rank links to prerender and a time parameter. The computing device requests content associated with the navigation event and prerenders the content associated with the navigation event in an alternate instance of the web browser that is hidden from a user of the web browser. The computing device determines whether the user has selected the navigation event within a time period based on the time parameter associated with the prerender tag. The alternate instance of the web browser containing the prerendered content in a current user instance of the web browser may be displayed. The computing device may discard the prerendered content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 11019179
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering 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 and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 10896285
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain
  • Patent number: 10572548
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a system and method for prerendering of search result pages. A search engine may process search queries received from a client. The search engine may determine one or more search results in response to the search query. One or more of the search results may be associated with prerender instructions, such that when the search results are received by the client, the client prerenders the search results associated with the prerender instructions. Prerender instructions may be associated with the search results in various manners, including ranking the search results based on relevance, or ranking the search results based on the likelihood of selection. Metrics and analytical data may be collected from the client to improve the search result prerendering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Ziga Mahkovec, Christopher Bentzel
  • Publication number: 20180246862
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering 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 and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 9928223
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering 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, where the network content includes a second portion including an advertisement and a first portion that does not include the advertisement. Responsive to the request, the first portion of the network content is provided without the second content. When a user selects a navigation event associated with the network content, the second portion for display is provided to the user with the first portion. The methods and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Publication number: 20170353584
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering 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 and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Publication number: 20170346928
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering 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 and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Publication number: 20170337163
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain
  • Patent number: 9769285
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering 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 and systems describe a variety of manners for prerendering content and managing and configuring prerendering operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 9672285
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a system and method for prerendering of search result pages. A search engine may process search queries received from a client. The search engine may determine one or more search results in response to the search query. One or more of the search results may be associated with prerender instructions, such that when the search results are received by the client, the client prerenders the search results associated with the prerender instructions. Prerender instructions may be associated with the search results in various manners, including ranking the search results based on relevance, or ranking the search results based on the likelihood of selection. Metrics and analytical data may be collected from the client to improve the search result prerendering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Ziga Mahkovec, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 9613009
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain
  • Patent number: 9483562
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a system and method for prerendering of search result pages. A search engine may process search queries received from a client. The search engine may determine one or more search results in response to the search query. One or more of the search results may be associated with prerender instructions, such that when the search results are received by the client, the client prerenders the search results associated with the prerender instructions. Prerender instructions may be associated with the search results in various manners, including ranking the search results based on relevance, or ranking the search results based on the likelihood of selection. Metrics and analytical data may be collected from the client to improve the search result prerendering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Ziga Mahkovec, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 9443197
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Dominic Hamon, Arvind Jain
  • Publication number: 20160246888
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a system and method for prerendering of search result pages. A search engine may process search queries received from a client. The search engine may determine one or more search results in response to the search query. One or more of the search results may be associated with prerender instructions, such that when the search results are received by the client, the client prerenders the search results associated with the prerender instructions. Prerender instructions may be associated with the search results in various manners, including ranking the search results based on relevance, or ranking the search results based on the likelihood of selection. Metrics and analytical data may be collected from the client to improve the search result prerendering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Ziga Mahkovec, Christopher Bentzel
  • Publication number: 20160188182
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Dominic Hamon, Arvind Jain
  • Publication number: 20160188542
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain
  • Publication number: 20160179951
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a system and method for prerendering of search result pages. A search engine may process search queries received from a client. The search engine may determine one or more search results in response to the search query. One or more of the search results may be associated with prerender instructions, such that when the search results are received by the client, the client prerenders the search results associated with the prerender instructions. Prerender instructions may be associated with the search results in various manners, including ranking the search results based on relevance, or ranking the search results based on the likelihood of selection. Metrics and analytical data may be collected from the client to improve the search result prerendering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Ziga Mahkovec, Christopher Bentzel
  • Patent number: 9141722
    Abstract: A method and system for improving access to network content are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by prerendering the next navigation event. For example, the method and system may predict a likely next navigation event during web browsing to preemptively request content from the network before the user selects the corresponding link on a web page. The prediction operation may identify correlations between metadata associated with a navigation history. The metadata may include the relationship of the selected navigation events to a web page. By making predictions using link page relationships links may be accurately predicted in circumstances where two links share common relationships to their source page but different destination addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, Arvind Jain
  • Patent number: 9104605
    Abstract: A system and method is provided wherein, in one aspect, a currently-requested item of information is stored in a cache based on whether it has been previously requested and, if so, the time of the previous request. If the item has not been previously requested, it may not be stored in the cache. If the subject item has been previously requested, it may or may not be cached based on a comparison of durations, namely (1) the duration of time between the current request and the previous request for the subject item and (2) for each other item in the cache, the duration of time between the current request and the previous request for the other item. If the duration associated with the subject item is less than the duration of another item in the cache, the subject item may be stored in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Burkard, David Presotto