Visual web page authoring tool for multi-context web pages

• US 20080120538A1
• Filed: 05/16/2007
• Published: 05/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: University of New Brunswick
• Original Assignee: University of New Brunswick
• Inventors: Zhan, Beika, Kurz, Bernd J.
• Application Number:
  US11/798,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20080120538A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A web page authoring tool apparatus and method are disclosed herein. A user interface module allows an author to manipulatively author at least two context-dependent views of a web page. Each view includes web content. A code page generation module automatically generates a context-aware code page from the context-dependent views of the web page. Rendering cues for presentation of the web page are embedded by the code page generation module according to at least one feature of the web content in each of the at least two context-dependent views, to subsequently aid in at least one of a qualitative aspect of dynamic content adaptation of the context-aware code page and a static content adaptation of the context-aware code page in rendering the web page.

Claims

1. A web page authoring tool apparatus, comprising:

a user interface module for manipulatively authoring at least two context-dependent views of the web page, each view including web content; and

a code page generation module for automatically generating a context-aware code page from the at least two context-dependent views of the web page;

wherein rendering cues for presentation of the web page are embedded by the code page generation module according to at least one feature of the web content in each of the at least two context-dependent views, to subsequently aid in at least one of a qualitative aspect of dynamic content adaptation of the context-aware code page and a static content adaptation of the context-aware code page in rendering the web page.

2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes a semantics of the web content.

3. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes a relevance of the web content.

4. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes a layout of the web content.

5. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes a specification to allow adaptation.

6. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes a specification to prevent adaptation.

7. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes an adaptation unit specification.

8. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes pagination.

9. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes navigation.

10. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes an inclusion/exclusion specification whereby web content is either excluded or included based on context parameters.

11. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one feature includes a selection tag.

12. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one qualitative aspect includes semantic fidelity of the content adaptation.

13. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one qualitative aspect includes usability of the content adaptation.

14. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least two views is a WYSIWYG view.

15. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the context is the context of the delivery of the web page and includes any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity.

16. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the context includes device capabilities.

17. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the context includes network conditions.

18. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the context includes user preference.

19. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the context-aware code page is a single-source code page.

20. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the static adaptation of the context-aware code page results in a multi-source code page.

21. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the code generation module produces a project file as an intermediate product to obtain the context-aware code page.

22. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the context-aware code page is an XHTML page.

23. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the context-aware code page comprises an HTML page.

24. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the code generation module comprises a GI/XHTML Code Engine.

25. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface module comprises a Drawing Engine.

26. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface module comprises an Action Listener.

27. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the code generation module comprises an Object Container.

28. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface module comprises at least one WebBrowser Control.

29. A web page authoring tool method, comprising the steps of:

providing a user interface module for manipulatively authoring at least two context-dependent views of the web page, each view including web content; and

providing a code page generation module for automatically generating a context-aware code page from the at least two context-dependent views of the web page;

wherein rendering cues for presentation of the web page are embedded by the code page generation module according to at least one feature of the web content in each of the at least two context-dependent views, to subsequently aid in at least one of a qualitative aspect of dynamic content adaptation of the context-aware code page and a static content adaptation of the context-aware code page in rendering the webpage.

30. The method as recited in claim 29, further comprising the step of generating the code page dynamically whenever a user requests it.

31. The method as recited in claim 29, further comprising the step of providing web page editing functions.

32. The method as recited in claim 31, wherein the web page editing functions include at least one of changing font, changing color, bold, italic, underline and justify (left, center and right).

33. The method as recited in claim 31, wherein the web page editing functions include inserting a Hyper-link.

34. The method as recited in claim 31, wherein the web page editing functions include inserting an image.

35. The method as recited in claim 31, wherein the web page editing functions include inserting a textbox.

36. The method as recited in claim 35, wherein the web page editing functions include editing the textbox.

37. The method as recited in claim 29, further comprising the step of providing a Glyph.

38. The method as recited in claim 37, wherein the Glyph defines attributes of an image.

39. The method as recited in claim 37, wherein the Glyph defines attributes of a textbox.

40. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of performing hit detection on the Glyph.

41. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of drawing the Glyph on a screen.

42. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of highlighting the Glyph on a screen.

43. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of erasing the Glyph from a screen.

44. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of returning the content of the Glyph.

45. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of moving the Glyph to a new location on a screen.

46. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of resizing the Glyph to a new set of dimensions.

47. The method as recited in claim 37, further comprising the step of recording an interaction of an author with a device window.

48. The method as recited in claim 47, wherein the interaction includes an object drag and drop action.

49. The method as recited in claim 47, wherein the interaction includes a movement of an object action.

50. The method as recited in claim 47, wherein the interaction includes a resizing of an object action.

51. The method as recited in claim 47, wherein the interaction includes a text entry action.

52. The method as recited in claim 47, wherein the interaction includes a general object editing action.

53. The method as recited in claim 29, further comprising the step of generating the code page.

54. The method as recited in claim 53, wherein the generating code page step further comprising the act of serializing objects.

55. The method as recited in claim 53, wherein the generating code page step further comprising the act of extracting attributes from objects and saving them in text format.

56. The method as recited in claim 55, wherein the text file comprises a field which represents a device.

57. The method as recited in claim 56, wherein the field comprises an object representation.

58. The method as recited in claim 57, wherein the object representation comprises an attribute.

59. The method as recited in claim 57, wherein the object representation represents a textbox.

60. The method as recited in claim 57, wherein the object representation represents an image.

61. The method as recited in claim 57, wherein the object representation represents a combination of objects.

62. The method as recited in claim 58, wherein the attribute is the type of the object.

63. The method as recited in claim 58, wherein the attribute is the location of the object.

64. The method as recited in claim 58, wherein the attribute is the size of the object.

65. The method as recited in claim 58, wherein the attribute is the content of the object.

66. The method as recited in claim 58, wherein the attribute is the owner of the object.

67. The method as recited in claim 58, wherein the attribute includes a sub-unit.

68. The method as recited in claim 53, wherein the code page is a single-source code page.

69. The method as recited in claim 68, wherein the single-source code page is in XHTML.

70. The method as recited in claim 53, wherein the code page is a multi-source code page is in HTML.