Method of automatically downloading photos from a web page

• US 20030078939A1
• Filed: 10/24/2001
• Published: 04/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tiger Color Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tiger Color Incorporated
• Inventors: Ma, Car-Lai
• Application Number:
  US09/983,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20030078939A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of automatically downloading the photo from a web page, which has a photo collector plugged in a web page browser installed in a computer; when the said browser opens a web page on-line, a photo selection button disposed on the said photo collector is activated to make the said photo collector recognize all the thumbnails on the said web page and available for downloading the photo as well as to respectively generate a click mark on the rim of the said thumbnails for the user to click on the photo to be downloaded according to the need.

Claims

1. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page, the method relates to a photo collector comprised in an image processing software installed in a computer and plugged in a screen of a web page browser disposed in the said computer for conducting the following processing toward the photos on the said web page after the web page browser is on-line and opens a web page:

recognizing all the thumbnails on the said web page available for downloading the photos as well as respectively generating a click-on mark on the rim of the said thumbnails, when a photo selection button disposed on the said photo collector is clicked by a input device connected with a computer;

automatically going to the storage locations of the photos corresponding to the thumbnails at the website of the web page to sequentially download all the photos based on the thumbnails corresponding to the clicked click-on marks, when a photo downloading button disposed on the said photo collector is clicked by an input device.

2. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein as the said photo selection button is determined not being activated, continuously detecting the said photo selection button.

3. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein as the said photo downloading button is determined not being activated, continuously detecting the said photo downloading button.

4. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein as the said photo downloading button is determined being clicked by the said input device, but none of the click-on marks on the rim of the said thumbnails is clicked, displaying a menu including a menu item for continuing the photo selection and a menu item for canceling the photo selection.

5. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 4, wherein as the menu item of continuing the photo selection is activated, returning to the previous step to continue detecting whether the said photo downloading button is activated or not.

6. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 4, wherein as the menu item of canceling the photo selection is activated, returning to the previous step to continue detecting whether the said photo selection button is activated or not.

7. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein the web page browser automatically saves the photo downloaded sequentially in a save equipment of the said computer for later access at any time.

8. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein the photo collector automatically displays the said sequentially downloaded photos in a photo browsing window of the said image processing software for enlarging the details.

9. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein the photo collector automatically displays the said sequentially downloaded photos on a desktop of the said image processing software for album categorization or executing image editing.

10. A method of automatically downloading the photos from a web page according to claim 1, wherein a select-all button is disposed on the said photo collector;

when the said select-all button is activated, it makes the said photo collector automatically recognize all the thumbnails on the said web page and available for downloading the photos, and go automatically to the website of the web page and sequentially download all the photos based on the storage locations of the photos corresponding to the thumbnails.