MENU BAR PROVIDING METHOD AND INFORMATION BROWSING SCREEN CONFIGURATION FILE CREATION PROGRAM

• US 20080126946A1
• Filed: 11/09/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Visionarts, Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujita, Takeshi, Kawachi, Tsutomu, Ueda, Michiyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,566,723 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to enable displaying of a desired Web page and also displaying of a Web page including a menu bar without first displaying a predetermined Web page which a user does not want on a second display area of the Web browser, and also to execute a content based on the content execution request accepted from a content execution input unit of the menu bar. In order to solve this object, processing means extract a portion from which a self-domain 211 is removed from the Web page identifier received from an external terminal device as a second Web page identifier. Next, the processing means newly create an information browsing screen configuration file, store information browsing screen configuration information 212 in the information browsing screen configuration file, also store a first Web page identifier 213 and a first display area identifier 214 in a correlated manner, and also store the extracted second Web page identifier and a second display area identifier 215 in a correlated manner.

Claims

1. A menu bar providing method for providing a Web page including a menu bar to an external device with a computer system of which the communication network is connected with a name resolving system and an information providing system,

wherein the storage means of said name resolving system includes a name resolving file storing a self-domain name which is a domain name to which said information providing system belongs, and also stores an arbitrary subordinate domain name and the address of said information providing system in a correlated manner;

and wherein the processing means of said name resolving system execute

(1) a step for receiving the domain name included in a Web page identifier from an external terminal device,

(2) a step for extracting a self-domain name with reference to the name resolving file,

(3) a step for extracting a portion from which the extracted self-domain name is removed from said received domain name as a subordinate domain name,

(4) a step for extracting the address of said information providing system correlated with the extracted subordinate domain name with reference to the name resolving file, and

(5) a step for transmitting the extracted address of said information providing system to said external terminal device;

and wherein the storage means of said information providing system store a self-domain name which is the domain name of the domain to which said information providing system belongs, a first Web page identifier for identifying a Web page on which a menu bar including a content execution request input unit is displayed, information browsing screen configuration information for dividing an information browsing screen into a first display area and a second display area, a first display area identifier for identifying said first display area, and a second display area identifier for identifying said second display area;

and wherein the processing means of said information providing system execute

(6) a step for receiving a Web page identifier from said external terminal device,

(7) a step for extracting a self-domain name from the storage means of said information providing system,

(8) a step for extracting a portion from which the extracted self-domain name is removed from said received Web page identifier as a second Web page identifier,

(9) a step for extracting a first Web page identifier, information browsing screen configuration information, a first display area identifier, and a second display area identifier from the storage means of said information providing system,

(10) a step for creating an information browsing screen configuration file newly, storing in the information browsing screen configuration file said extracted information browsing screen configuration information, also storing said extracted first Web page identifier and said extracted first display area identifier in a correlated manner, and also storing said extracted second Web page identifier and said extracted second display area identifier in a correlated manner, and

(11) a step for transmitting the created information browsing screen configuration file to said external terminal device.

2. An information browsing screen configuration file creation program employed for an information providing system including storage means of information, communication means as to an external terminal device, and processing means for controlling the operation of each of these means,

wherein said storage means store a self-domain name which is the domain name of the domain to which said information providing system belongs, a first Web page identifier for identifying a Web page on which a menu bar including a content execution request input unit is displayed, information browsing screen configuration information for dividing an information browsing screen into a first display area and a second display area, a first display area identifier for identifying said first display area, and a second display area identifier for identifying said second display area;

and wherein said program causes said processing means to execute

(1) a step for extracting a self-domain name from said storage means,

(2) a step for extracting a portion from which the extracted self-domain name is removed from the Web page identifier received from the external terminal device as a second Web page identifier,

(3) a step for extracting a first Web page identifier, information browsing screen configuration information, a first display area identifier, and a second display area identifier from said storage means,

(4) a step for creating an information browsing screen configuration file newly, storing in the information browsing screen configuration file said extracted information browsing screen configuration information, also storing said extracted first Web page identifier and said extracted first display area identifier in a correlated manner, and also storing said extracted second Web page identifier and said extracted second display area identifier in a correlated manner.