ENHANCING AN EXISTING WEB PAGE

• US 20070277088A1
• Filed: 05/24/2006
• Published: 11/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Thorson, Derral C., Jaramillo, David, Redman, Jesse W.
• Application Number:
  US11/420,014
• Publication Number:
  US 20070277088A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for enhancing an existing web page. Embodiments include retrieving a web page; identifying a hyperlink within the web page; retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink; creating a speech presentation of the content accessible through the hyperlink; storing the speech presentation; creating a new hyperlink to the speech presentation; and augmenting the web page to include the new hyperlink.

Claims

1. A method of enhancing an existing web page, the method comprising:

retrieving a web page;

identifying a hyperlink within the web page;

retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink;

creating a speech presentation of the content accessible through the hyperlink;

storing the speech presentation;

creating a new hyperlink to the speech presentation; and

augmenting the web page to include the new hyperlink.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising making the augmented web page available at a network address.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

identifying a hyperlink within the web page further comprises searching the hyperlink for an href element in the web page; and

retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink further comprises identifying a network address associated with the href element and retrieving the content from the network address.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein creating a speech presentation of the content further comprises:

extracting text from the content;

converting the text to speech;

creating a media file; and

recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein augmenting the web page to include a new hyperlink to the speech presentation of the content further comprises adding an icon next to the hyperlink web page.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising downloading the enhanced web page to a browser.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing the speech presentation on a portable digital media player.

8. A system of enhancing an existing web page, system comprising:

a computer processor;

a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor;

the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of;

retrieving a web page;

identifying a hyperlink within the web page;

retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink;

creating a speech presentation of the content accessible through the hyperlink;

storing the speech presentation;

creating a new hyperlink to the speech presentation; and

augmenting the web page to include the new hyperlink.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein:

computer program instructions capable of identifying a hyperlink within the web page further comprise computer program instructions capable of searching the hyperlink for an href element in the web page; and

computer program instructions capable of retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink further comprise computer program instructions capable of identifying a network address associated with the href element and retrieving the content from the network address.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein computer program instructions capable of creating a speech presentation of the content further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

extracting text from the content;

converting the text to speech;

creating a media file; and

recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein computer program instructions capable of augmenting the web page to include a new hyperlink to the speech presentation of the content further comprise computer program instructions capable of adding an icon next to the hyperlink in the web page.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein the computer memory also has disposed within it computer program instructions capable of downloading the enhanced web page to a browser.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein the computer memory also has disposed within it computer program instructions capable of rendering the speech presentation including invoking the new hyperlink.

14. The system of claim 8 wherein the computer memory also has disposed within it computer program instructions capable of storing the speech presentation on a portable digital media player.

15. A computer program product of enhancing an existing web page, the computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions for retrieving a web page;

computer program instructions for identifying a hyperlink within the web page;

computer program instructions for retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink;

computer program instructions for creating a speech presentation of the content accessible through the hyperlink;

computer program instructions for storing the speech presentation;

computer program instructions for creating a new hyperlink to the speech presentation; and

computer program instructions for augmenting the web page to include the new hyperlink.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein:

computer program instructions for identifying a hyperlink within the web page further comprise computer program instructions for searching the hyperlink for an href element in the web page; and

computer program instructions for retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink further comprise computer program instructions for identifying a network address associated with the href element and retrieving the content from the network address.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions for creating a speech presentation of the content further comprise:

computer program instructions for extracting text from the content;

computer program instructions for creating a media file;

computer program instructions for converting the text to speech; and

computer program instructions for recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions for augmenting the web page to include a new hyperlink to the speech presentation of the content further comprise computer program instructions for adding an icon next to the hyperlink web page.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a recording medium.

20. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a transmission medium.