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Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2018
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Siddhartha Shankara Rao, Seattle, WA (US);

Eric D. Cox, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/40 (2006.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 16/957 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9566 (2019.01); G06F 16/9577 (2019.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A service provider may determine that an electronic message sent from a first user device of a first user to a second user device of a second user includes a URL. The service provider may cause the URL to be unfurled, resulting in a preview of the URL, using a combination of a server-based process and a client-based process and one or more policies. Based on the policies, a cloud-based unfurling service may attempt to obtain metadata associated with the URL in order to unfurl the URL. If the server-based unfurling process is unable to unfurl the URL, the first device and/or the second device may obtain the metadata and unfurl the URL. As a result, the recipient of the message (e.g., the second user) may view an unfurled URL that includes a preview of a website corresponding to the URL (e.g., a title/headline, representative text, images, videos, etc.).


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