Systems and methods for viewing larger than screen size digital content on display screens without zooming and scrolling

• US 10,162,803 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2013
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tara Chand Singhal
• Original Assignee: Tara Chand Singhal
• Inventors: Singhal, Tara Chand
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, James A
• Application Number:
  US13/902,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,038 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

A system for displaying information on a display screen of a computing device, where the digital content is of the size that exceeds the display screen size for display, the device sends a device_type parameter as part of the service request that enables the web server to format the digital content specific to the device type and for its screen size.

Claims

1. A method for a mobile wireless device, comprising the steps of:

providing a handheld mobile wireless device of a type of a smart phone, and operating therein a modified browser logic;

providing by the modified browser logic, in a request for service protocol to a web server, a variable identified as device_type;

passing the device type variable by the mobile wireless device as part of a hyper text transport protocol (http) from the mobile wireless device to the web server;

providing by the modified browser logic, the device_type variable with a specific value equal to a manufacturer'"'"'s model number of the mobile wireless device wherein the model number maps only to a specific screen size of the mobile device in a table and wherein the table is pre-stored in the web server, wherein the device_type variable, in the request for service, is for use by a web server logic in the web server for formatting digital content for the specific screen size of the mobile wireless device.

2. The method as in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

identifying to the web server by the value of the device_type variable the type of mobile wireless device, including a manufacturer and a model of the mobile wireless device that has requested service from the web server.

3. The method as in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

passing the device_type variable by the mobile wireless device as part of a hyper text transport protocol (http) from the mobile wireless device to the web server.

4. The method as in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

including, in the request for service protocol, one of a plurality of variables identified as device type or a variable identified as screen_size, wherein including a value of the screen size variable as a size of screen of the mobile wireless device, in a service protocol between the mobile wireless device and the web server for requesting content from the web server.

5. The method as in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

receiving by the mobile wireless device the digital content in response to the service request in a file, wherein the file having a sequence of screen-views that can be navigated in the mobile wireless device.

6. The method as in claim 1, comprising the steps of:

including both a screen_size variable and a device_type variable parameter in a protocol between the mobile wireless device and the web server for requesting content from the web server.

7. A method for a web server, comprising the steps of:

providing the web server with a modified web server logic;

pre-storing by the modified web server logic a table of model numbers of mobile wireless handheld devices of the type of smart phones and for each model number, only a screen size of the device;

receiving by the modified web server logic, a request for service, wherein the request for service has a variable identified as device_type and of the variable, a value of a model number of a handheld device of the type of smart phone;

processing by the modified web server logic the service request by identifying the variable of device_type and its value of a specific model number of the device and looking up the table for the specific model number and identifying a screen size of the device;

structuring the requested digital content by the modified web server logic into a sequence of plurality of screen views for the screen size before sending the digital content formatted as a sequence of screen views to the mobile wireless device.

8. The method as in claim 7, comprising the steps of:

formatting by the modified web server logic the digital content in a file, wherein the digital content having a sequence of screen-views that can be navigated in the mobile wireless device and sending the file to the mobile wireless device.

9. The method as in claim 7, comprising the steps of:

requesting by the web server logic from the mobile wireless device, the device type variable prior to receiving the device type variable from the mobile wireless device, before sending content to the mobile wireless device formatted for the mobile wireless device.

10. The method as in claim 7, comprising the steps of:

maintaining by the modified web server logic, a table in the web server wherein using the table by the modified web server logic for mapping the value of the device_type variable into screen_size values, wherein the screen_size is for use in formatting the content by the modified web server logic before sending the content to the mobile wireless device.

11. A system of communication between a web server and a client, the system comprising:

a client device with a CPU and a memory on a global computer network, wherein the client is specifically a handheld mobile wireless device of a type of a smart phone and operating therein is a modified browser logic and the web server has a CPU and a memory and has operating therein a modified web server logic;

the modified browser logic in the client creates a device_type variable and a corresponding value of the variable and sends the device_type variable and the corresponding value as a part of a request for service protocol to a web server for requesting digital content from the web server, wherein the value of the device_type variable identifies a manufacturer and a model of the mobile wireless device;

the modified web server logic in the web server maps the value of the device_type variable to a table pre-stored in the web server to find a corresponding value of only a display screen size of the client;

the modified web server logic processes the requested digital content that has been pre-stored into a sequence of plurality of screen views wherein, the value of the device_type variable of a screen size of the mobile wireless device enables the modified web server logic to format the digital content for the device_type in the web server before sending the digital content to the client mobile wireless device.

12. The system as in claim 11, wherein:

the device_type variable is sent as part of the hyper text transport protocol (http) from the mobile wireless device to the web server.

13. The system as in claim 11, wherein:

web-server first requesting from the mobile wireless device, instead of receiving the device type variable from the mobile wireless device, before sending content to the mobile wireless device formatted for the mobile wireless device.

14. The system as in claim 11, wherein:

the modified web server logic maintains a table for mapping device_type variable into the screen_size value, for use in formatting content before sending content to the device.

15. The system as in claim 11, wherein:

the modified web server logic, in response, formats the digital content to have a sequence of screen-views in a file that can be navigated in the device and sends the file.

16. The system as in claim 11, wherein:

the device, in response, receives the digital content in a file that has a sequence of screen-views that can be navigated in the device by the modified web browser.