Presentation of large pages on small displays

• US 20050229111A1
• Filed: 04/07/2004
• Published: 10/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 3, LLC
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Makela, Mikko
• Granted Patent: US 8,745,515 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

This invention relates to method for presenting at least a part of a page, comprising at least partially dividing at least one page into a plurality of areas, presenting said plurality of areas in a first representation, making at least one area of said plurality of areas an active area, and in response to a user operation on said at least one active area, presenting at least one of said at least one active areas in a second representation. Said at least one page may be a Hypertext Markup Language HTML page, or a page of a text document, and said display may be integrated in a portable electronic device. The invention further relates to a device, a system, a computer program and a computer program product.

Claims

1. A method for presenting at least a part of a page, comprising:

at least partially dividing at least one page into a plurality of areas;

presenting said plurality of areas in a first representation,

making at least one area of said plurality of areas an active area; and

in response to a user operation on said at least one active area, presenting at least one of said at least one active areas in a second representation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said user operation, at least one of said at least one active areas is selected, and wherein at least said selected area is presented in said second representation.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least two areas of said plurality of areas are made active areas.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least partial division of said at least one page into said plurality of areas is based on a structure of at least a part of said at least one page.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least partial division of said at least one page into said plurality of areas is based on a sectioning algorithm.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said first representation, at least one area of said plurality of areas is scaled to a size that is smaller than the original size of said respective area.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said first representation, at least one area of said plurality of areas is cropped.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said first representation, at least one area of said plurality of areas is indicated by an icon.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein areas of said plurality of areas with a size that is above a size threshold, or that contain an amount of information that is above an information threshold are made active areas, or both.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said at least one active areas is automatically focused, or selected according to a selection criterion, or both.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said second representation, said at least one active area is scaled to a size that is larger than its size in said first representation.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein within at least one of said areas presented in said first representation, elements can be directly selected by a user.

13. A computer program with instructions operable to cause a processor to perform the method steps of claim 1.

14. A computer program product comprising a computer program with instructions operable to cause a processor to perform the method steps of claim 1.

15. A device for presenting at least a part of a page, comprising:

means for at least partially dividing at least one page into a plurality of areas;

means for presenting said plurality of areas in a first representation;

means for making at least one area of said plurality of areas an active area; and

means for presenting at least one of said at least one active areas in a second representation.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein said areas are presented on a display module, or on a display of a portable electronic device.

17. A system for presenting at least a part of a page, comprising:

means for at least partially dividing at least one page into a plurality of areas;

means for presenting said plurality of areas in a first representation,

means for making at least one area of said plurality of areas an active area; and

means for presenting at least one of said at least one active areas in a second representation.