Technique for Changing the Display of Web Pages as Time Passes

• US 20070277102A1
• Filed: 05/25/2007
• Published: 11/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kanzaki, Eisuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,539,333 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0002 Codebook adaptations
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0014 Selection criteria for distances

Abstract

A display device for displaying a web page is provided, which displays each of the contents contained in a web page so that users can recognize whether the content is new or not. The display device has a displaying unit, an acquiring unit, and a changing unit. The displaying unit displays an image of each of the contents contained in the web page. The acquiring unit acquires a reference time point as a criterion of the age of each of the contents. The changing unit changes, for each of the contents, the image of the content displayed by the displaying unit to an image in which the age of the content is reflected in accordance with expiration of the reference time point.

Claims

1. A display device for displaying a web page, comprising:

a displaying unit for displaying an image of each of the contents included in the web page;

an acquiring unit for acquiring a reference time point used as a criterion of the age of each of the contents; and

a changing unit for changing, for each of the contents, the image of the content displayed by the displaying unit to an image in which the age of the content is reflected in accordance with expiration of the reference time point.

2. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a calculating unit for calculating, for each of the contents, an age of the content on the basis of a difference between a present time point and the reference time point, and wherein

the changing unit changes the image of each of the contents to an image in which the age calculated for the content is reflected.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the web page is defined as a tagged text in which content to be displayed is written in association with tags that indicate additional information of the content, and wherein

the acquiring unit acquires the reference time point used as the criterion of age of the content from the additional information written in association with each of the contents in the web page.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the changing unit changes the image of the content having the expired reference time point to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by combining a predetermined image with the image of the content.

5. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the changing unit changes the image of the content having the expired reference time point to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by employing a predetermined filter on the image of the content to apply a visual effect on the image.

6. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the changing unit changes, on the condition that the content having the expired reference time point includes a text, the image of the content to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by narrowing line widths of characters included in the text.

7. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the changing unit changes the image of the content having the expired reference time point to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by a mode corresponding to the type of the content.

8. A computer implementable method, comprising:

displaying an image of each of the contents included in a web page;

acquiring a reference time point used as a criterion of the age of each of the contents; and

changing, for each of the contents, the image of the content displayed to an image in which the age of the content is reflected in accordance with the expiration of the reference time point.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

calculating, for each of the contents, an age of the content on the basis of a difference between a present time point and the reference time point, and

wherein the image of each of the contents changes to an image in which the age calculated for the content is reflected.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the web page is defined as a tagged text in which content to be displayed is written in association with tags that indicate additional information of the content, and

wherein the reference time point used as the criterion of age of the content from the information written in association with each of the contents in the web page.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by combining a predetermined image with the image of the content.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by employing a predetermined filter on the image of the content to apply a visual effect on the image.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein:

on the condition that the content having the expired reference time point includes text, the image of the content changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by narrowing line widths of characters included in the text.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by a mode corresponding to the type of the content.

15. A computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

displaying an image of each of the contents included in a web page;

acquiring a reference time point used as a criterion of the age of each of the contents; and

changing, for each of the contents the image of the content displayed to an image in which the age of the content is reflected in accordance with the expiration of the reference time point.

16. The computer-usable medium of claim 15, wherein the embodied computer program code further comprises computer executable instructions configured for:

calculating for each of the contents, an age of the content on the basis of a difference between a present time point and the reference time point, and

wherein the image of each of the contents changes to an image in which the age calculated for the content is reflected.

17. The computer-usable medium of claim 16, wherein:

the web page is defined as a tagged text in which content to be displayed is written in association with tags that indicate additional information of the content, and

wherein the reference time point used as the criterion of age of the content from the information written in association with each of the contents in the web page.

18. The computer-usable medium of claim 16, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by combining a predetermined image with the image of the content.

19. The computer-usable medium of claim 16, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by employing a predetermined filter on the image of the content to apply a visual effect on the image.

20. The computer-usable medium of claim 16, wherein:

on the condition that the content having the expired reference time point includes text, the image of the content changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by narrowing line widths of characters included in the text.