Automatic display of web content to smaller display devices: improved summarization and navigation

• US 20040003028A1
• Filed: 05/08/2002
• Published: 01/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stirling Bridge, Inc.
• Original Assignee: UniSite Software, Inc.
• Inventors: Rahman, Ahmad, Emmett, David
• Application Number:
  US10/142,393
• Publication Number:
  US 20040003028A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for modifying a document format. In one embodiment, a structure of a first document is extracted to form a first data structure, including multiple subdocuments, each subdocument having a label assigned thereto. A table of contents listing the labels of the subdocuments is then generated. The various labels are then ordered according to the amount of text of the associated subdocument, a comparison of the text of a previous link and the text of the associated subdocument, a comparison of the text of the previous document and the text of the associated subdocument, a comparison of the text of the previous link and the text of the associated subdocument, or a combination of these.

Claims

1. A method of ranking entries in a table of contents, the method comprising:

transmitting a first document to a client device, the first subdocument including a text and a link;

receiving from the client device a request for a second document associated with the link;

dividing the second document into subdocuments, each of the subdocuments including text;

assigning a label to each of a plurality of the subdocuments;

comparing the text of the first document with the text of each of the subdocuments to generate a document-document value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the document-document values.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a table of contents page listing the labels associated with the plurality of subdocuments in the ranked order.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the link comprises text, the method further comprising:

comparing the text of the link with the text of each of the subdocuments to generate a link-text value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the link-text values.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the link comprises text, the method further comprising:

comparing the text of the link with the label assigned to each of the plurality of subdocuments to generate a link-label value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the link-label values.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

displaying the first document at the client device;

detecting user selection of the link;

transmitting the request for a second document associated with the link in response to the detecting user selection of the link.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein the link comprises text, the method further comprising:

comparing the text of the link with the label assigned to each of the plurality of subdocuments to generate a link-label value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the link-label values.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying the ranked order according to a predefined order defined by a data structure.

11. A method of ranking entries in a table of contents, the method comprising:

transmitting a first document to a client device, the first subdocument including a text and a link;

receiving from the client device a request for a second document associated with the link;

dividing the second document into subdocuments, each of the subdocuments including text;

assigning a label to each of a plurality of the subdocuments;

comparing the text of the link with the text of each of the subdocuments to generate a link-text value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the link-text values.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the link comprises text, the method further comprising:

comparing the text of the link with the label assigned to each of the plurality of subdocuments to generate a link-label value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the link-label values.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising;

displaying the first document at the client device;

detecting user selection of the link;

transmitting the request for a second document associated with the link in response to the detecting user selection of the link.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.

15. A method of ranking entries in a table of contents, the method comprising:

transmitting a first document to a client device, the first subdocument including a text and a link;

receiving from the client device a request for a second document associated with the link;

dividing the second document into subdocuments, each of the subdocuments including text;

assigning a label to each of a plurality of the subdocuments;

comparing the text of the link with the label assigned to each of the plurality of subdocuments to generate a link-label value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the link-label values.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising;

displaying the first document at the client device;

detecting user selection of the link;

transmitting the request for a second document associated with the link in response to the detecting user selection of the link.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.

18. A method of ranking entries in a table of contents, the method comprising:

transmitting a first document to a client device, the first subdocument including a text and a link;

receiving from the client device a request for a second document associated with the link;

dividing the second document into subdocuments, each of the subdocuments including text;

comparing the text of the first document with the text of each of the subdocuments to generate a document-document value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

comparing the text of the link with the label assigned to each of the plurality of subdocuments to generate a link-label value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

comparing the text of the link with the text of each of the subdocuments to generate a link-text value for each of the plurality of subdocuments according to the degree of association between the first document and the corresponding one of the subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, on the document-document, link-label, and link-text values.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.

20. A method of ranking entries in a table of contents, the method comprising:

transmitting a first document to a client device, the first subdocument including a text and a link;

receiving from the client device a request for a second document associated with the link;

dividing the second document into subdocuments, each of the subdocuments including text;

assigning a label to each of a plurality of the subdocuments;

generating a size value indicative of an amount of text in each of the plurality of subdocuments;

ranking in ranked order the plurality of subdocuments based, at least in part, by the size value.