Method and apparatus for providing a hyperlink indication on a display for an image in a web page

• US 20040119741A1
• Filed: 12/20/2002
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Teng, Un Tung, Chandarlapaty, Sandhya
• Granted Patent: US 7,185,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A wireless handheld device (10) includes a display (16), a processing device (12), and memory (14) that contains instructions executable by the processing device to indicate to a user that an image (302) on a web page has a hyperlink associated with it. The processing device receives (200) a web page, such as web page source information (24) from a web browser application (18), and scans (202) the received web page to detect whether an image within the web page has a hyperlink associated therewith. If a hyperlink is detected, the processing device generates (206) text (26) for the image to indicate that the image has an associated hyperlink. The processing device displays the newly generated text on the display together with the web page to visually indicate that the image in the web page has an associated hyperlink.

Claims

1. A wireless handheld device comprising:

a display;

a processing device operatively coupled to the display; and

memory, operatively coupled to the processing device, containing executable instructions that, when executed by the processing device, causes the processing device to;

receive a web page;

scan the received web page to detect whether an image within the web page has a hyperlink associated therewith;

generate text to indicate that the image has an associated hyperlink in the event that a hyperlink is detected; and

display the generated text on the display together with the web page to visually indicate that the image in the web page has an associated hyperlink.

2. The handheld wireless device of claim 1, wherein the executable instructions are configured as a web browser plug-in application.

3. The handheld wireless device of claim 2, wherein the memory includes executable instructions that are further configured as a web browser application and wherein the web browser application calls the web browser plug-in application in response to receiving the web page.

4. The handheld wireless device of claim 1, wherein the memory further includes executable instructions that cause the processing device to display the generated text on the display adjacent to the image.

5. The handheld wireless device of claim 1, wherein the display is a touchscreen display.

6. A method for providing a hyperlink indication on a display for an image in a web page, the method comprising:

receiving a web page;

scanning the received web page to detect whether an image within the web page has a hyperlink associated therewith;

in the event that a hyperlink is detected for the image, generating text to indicate that the image has an associated hyperlink; and

displaying the generated text on the display together with the web page to visually indicate that the image in the web page has an associated hyperlink.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving a web page comprises receiving a call from a web browser application to begin scanning the web page.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein displaying the generated text comprises displaying the generated text on the display adjacent to the image.

9. A storage medium comprising:

executable instructions that, when executed by a processing device, causes the processing device to;

receive a web page;

scan the received web page to detect whether an image within the web page has a hyperlink associated therewith;

generate text to indicate that the image has an associated hyperlink in the event that a hyperlink is detected; and

display the generated text on a display together with the web page to visually indicate that the image in the web page has an associated hyperlink.

10. The storage medium of claim 9, wherein the executable instructions are configured at least in part as a web browser plug-in application.

11. The storage medium of claim 10, wherein the executable instructions are further configured as a web browser application and wherein the web browser application calls the web browser plug-in application in response to receiving the web page.