METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC WEB PAGE ARRANGEMENT

• US 20080134064A1
• Filed: 01/17/2008
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Majd, Mahdad, Bates, Cary Lee, Santosuosso, John Matthew
• Application Number:
  US12/016,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20080134064A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

A browser renders a page for display according to user habits. When a user interacts with a page associated with a network address, an entry is made in a file that associates the element on the page of the user interaction with the network address. When the page is visited again, the file is checked to see if any entry exists. If an entry exists and the stored user interaction is still relevant for that page, the page is rendered so that the location the user interacted with is provided at the top of the display, or the element is re-arranged, as in the case of a table, or both re-positioning and re-arranging occurs. Such page rendering reduces the need for the user to scroll through the page to view the desired information.

Claims

1. A configurable client computer for use in a client-server computer system, the client computer comprising:

a display; and

a browser capable of rendering electronic documents to the display, the browser being capable of accessing user habit data in association with electronic document address data, and

a renderer capable of rendering a selected electronic document to the display according to the user habit data.

2. The configurable client computer of claim 1, further comprising a page renderer file configured to store the user habit data.

3. The configurable client computer of claim 1, wherein the display is capable of displaying, at most, a number of lines less than a number of lines of the selected electronic document.

4. The configurable client computer of claim 1, wherein the renderer renders the selected electronic document to the display by repositioning the selected electronic document to display a page location at a top portion of the display.

5. The configurable client computer of claim 1, wherein the renderer renders the selected electronic document to the display by rearranging elements of the selected electronic document to display a page location at a top portion of the display.