Fixed window selection

• US 20060015820A1
• Filed: 07/19/2005
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Wood, Eric
• Application Number:
  US11/184,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20060015820A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for fixed window selection. A system for web browsing includes a user interface including a graphical user interface and a processor linked to the user interface, the processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a web browser program and to output at the graphical user interface a graphical representation of at least a part of the web browser program in a web browser window, the web browser program including window size program code portions in which at least one predetermined web browser window size is stored, the predetermined web browser window size smaller than a maximum web browser window size and larger than a minimum web browser window size, window size setting program code portions constructed to set the web browser window size in accordance with a selected web browser window size selected from the at least one predetermined web browser window size, and the user interface including a control for selecting by a user the selected web browser window size from the at least one predetermined web browser window size.

Claims

1. A system for web browsing comprising:

a user interface including a graphical user interface and a processor linked to the user interface, the processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a web browser program and to output at the graphical user interface a graphical representation of at least a part of the web browser program in a web browser window, the web browser program comprising;

window size program code portions in which at least one predetermined web browser window size is stored, the predetermined web browser window size smaller than a maximum web browser window size and larger than a minimum web browser window size;

window size setting program code portions constructed to set the web browser window size in accordance with a selected web browser window size selected from the at least one predetermined web browser window size; and

the user interface including a control for selecting by a user the selected web browser window size from the at least one predetermined web browser window size.

2. The computer system of claim 1 a number of the at least one predetermined web browser window sizes is smaller than a number of possible web browser window sizes that are smaller than a maximum size and larger than a minimum size.

5. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the web browser window comprises a graphical control for inputting by a user at least one user defined web browser window size, and the web browser program includes a size storing program code portion for storing the user defined web browser window size in the window size program code portions.

6. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the at least one predetermined web browser window size comprises a size having a width by height corresponding to 800 by 600 pixels, and/or 1024 by 768 pixels and/or 1200 by 1600.

7. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the graphical user interface includes in an operational state of the system a graphical representation of one or more of the predetermined web browser window sizes.

8. The computer system of claim 1 the web browser program further includes browsing program code portions for retrieving a web page depending on the selected web browser window size.

3. The computer system of claim 3 wherein the number of the at least one predetermined web browser window size is ten or less.

4. The computer system of claim 3 wherein the number of the at least one predetermined web browser window size is five or less.

9. A method for web browsing using a graphical user interface linked to a processor, the processor arranged for performing instructions in accordance with a web browser program and for outputting at the graphical user interface in a web browser window a graphical representation of at least a part of the web browser program, the method comprising:

selecting a selected window size from at least one predetermined web browser window size stored in a window size program code portion of the web browser program;

setting by a window size setting program code portion of the web browser program, the web browser window size in accordance with the selected web browser window size.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising selecting by the web browser program of a programmed web page to be displayed in a web browser window, wherein the selecting is performed based on the retrieved user selected size.