Apparatus and method for outputting web content that is rendered based on device information

• US 10,296,566 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2016
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kwak, Nohyun, Lim, SangSeok
• Primary Examiner(s): Kells, Asher D
• Application Number:
  US15/540,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20180011822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,233 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for outputting web content. The apparatus and method can prevent rendering performance from being degraded in some operating systems when web content (web document) is output through a web browser.

Claims

1. A web content output apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory and to;

identify device information;

extract entities in a web document, where each entity represents an object in a web game;

classify the extracted entities into at least one main entity and sub-entity, where the sub-entity has a lower importance level than the main entity and the main entity includes portions of the web document other than the sub-entity; and

render the web document and output the rendered web document, where to render the web document and output the rendered web document, the processor is configured to;

render an area in the web document including the main entity in such a manner as to distinguish the area in the web document from another area in the web document when the identified device information corresponds to a predetermined piece of device information.

2. The web content output apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to refrain from rendering the sub-entity in the web document.

3. The web content output apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to reduce a resolution of an area in the web document including the sub-entity.

4. The web content output apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to render the area of the web document including the main entity and an area of the web document including the sub-entity in different rendering schemes, and to then output respective pieces of content generated using the different rendering schemes in such a manner as to overlay the respective pieces of content.

5. The web content output apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the web document corresponds to a web document generated according to Hypertext Markup Language 5 (Html 5), and the rendering engine is configured to render the area including the main entity on a canvas, and to render the area including the sub-entity by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

6. The web content output apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the sub-entity is a Document Object Model (DOM) node in the web document.

7. The web content output apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device information comprises operating system information and version information utilized by the processor of the web content output apparatus.

8. A method for outputting web content by a web content output apparatus, the method comprising:

identifying, with a processor a web content output apparatus, device information;

extracting, with the processor, entities in a web document, where each entity represents an object in a web game, and classifying the extracted entities into at least one main entity and sub-entity, where the sub entity has a lower importance level than the main entity and the main entity includes portions of the web document other than the sub-entity; and

rendering, with the processor, the web document and outputting the rendered web document, wherein the rendering of the web document and the outputting of the rendered web document comprises rendering an area in the web document including the main entity in such a manner as to distinguish the area in the web document from another area in the web document when the identified device information corresponds to any predetermined one piece of device information.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the rendering of the web document and the outputting of the rendered web document comprises refraining from rendering an area of the web document including the sub-entity.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the rendering of the web document and the outputting of the rendered web document comprises reducing a resolution of an area including the sub-entity.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the rendering of the web document and the outputting of the rendered web document comprises:

rendering an area in the web document including the main entity and an area in the web document including the sub-entity in different rendering schemes; and

outputting respective pieces of content generated by the different rendering schemes in such a manner as to overlay the respective pieces of content.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the web document corresponds to a web document generated according to Hypertext Markup Language 5 (Html 5), and the rendering of the web document and the outputting of the rendered web document comprises rendering the area in the web document including the main entity on a canvas, and rendering the area in the web document including the sub-entity using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the sub-entity is a Document Object Model (DOM) node in the web document.

14. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device information comprises operating system information and version information which are used by the processor of the web content output apparatus.