System and method for web navigation using images

• US 20070073777A1
• Filed: 09/26/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Johnson, Gregory, Gorelik, Michael, Wallace, Kevin, Werwath, James
• Granted Patent: US 7,810,049 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A system and method is provided for accessing information content that enables handheld or mobile device users, for example, to quickly and efficiently navigate images contained within the information content to access other areas of the information content. A user of the handheld device will request and receive information content, such as requesting a web page, for viewing. The user can select a navigation mode to receive a display only of interesting images pertaining to the webpage. The user can then thumb through the images and select an image of interest. The device will then display the portion of the web page associated with the selected image. Thus, the user can select an image to switch the view on the device back to a conventional browser viewing mode, for example.

Claims

1. A method of accessing webpage content comprising:

receiving information pertaining to the webpage content at a client browser;

selecting desirable images from the information pertaining to the webpage content for display on the client browser;

forming an image navigation presentation including the desirable images; and

displaying on the client browser the image navigation presentation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the desirable images are associated with a location within the webpage content, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a user selection pertaining to one of the desirable images; and

displaying on the client browser information content at the location associated with the desirable image of the user selection.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

filtering out all text within the information; and

identifying the desirable images from remaining information pertaining to the webpage content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the desirable images are images that are square-like and include a variance in color.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the desirable images do not include advertisement images.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the desirable images do not include web page frame images.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the desirable images do not include images that are transparent in color.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying on the client browser the image navigation presentation comprises presenting the desirable images in a slideshow format.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying on the client browser the image navigation presentation comprises presenting the desirable images in a thumbnail format with a group of images arranged in rows and columns.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein forming the image navigation presentation including the desirable images comprises reducing a size of the desirable images.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the desirable images from the information for display on the client browser comprises selecting the desirable images based on attributes of the information pertaining to the webpage content selected from the group consisting of a file format type, a file name, color aspects, an image aspect ratio, and an image size.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the desirable images includes a hyperlink that links the desirable image to a destination resource, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a user selection pertaining to one of the desirable images; and

displaying on the client browser the destination resource of the selected image.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting desirable images from the information pertaining to the webpage content for display on the client browser comprises selecting images from a single webpage for display.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting desirable images from the information pertaining to the webpage content for display on the client browser comprises selecting images from multiple webpages for display.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the client browser resides on a device, and the method further comprising:

saving at least one of the desirable images on the client device.

16. A computer readable medium having stored therein instructions to execute the method of claim 1.

17. A method of accessing information content designed for large screen computers on a handheld device, the method comprising:

receiving the information content at the handheld device;

selecting desirable images within the information content for display on the handheld device, wherein the desirable images are associated with a location in the information content;

from the received information content, displaying on the handheld device only the desirable images;

receiving a selection pertaining to one of the desirable images; and

displaying on the handheld device information content at the location associated with the desirable image of the selection.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying on the handheld device only the desirable images comprises presenting the desirable images in a slideshow format.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying on the handheld device only the desirable images comprises presenting the desirable images in a thumbnail format with a group of images arranged in rows and columns.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein selecting the desirable images from the information content for display on the handheld device comprises selecting the desirable images based on attributes of the information content selected from the group consisting of a file format type, a file name, color aspects, an image aspect ratio, and an image size.

21. A system for accessing information content, the system comprising:

a server browser for accessing the information content; and

a client browser for receiving the information content from the server browser and filtering the information content so as to display desirable images within the information content, wherein the desirable images are associated with a location within the information content, and in response to a user selection pertaining to one of the desirable images, the client browser displays information content at the location associated with the desirable image of the user selection.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the information content is content from a standard Internet web page, and wherein the client browser resides on a device for which the information content was not intended to be naturally displayed, and wherein the client browser converts the desirable images into a size and format acceptable by the device for display on the device.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the client browser displays the desirable images in a slideshow format.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein the client browser displays the desirable images in a thumbnail format with a group of images arranged in rows and columns.

25. The system of claim 21, wherein the client browser filters the information content based on attributes of the information selected from the group consisting of a file format type, a file name, color aspects, an image aspect ratio, and an image size.