Server side web browsing and multiple lens system, method and apparatus

• US 20080155012A1
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CDN Innovations, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Gutenberg Printing LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Chiang, Hiang Swee
• Application Number:
  US11/515,148
• Publication Number:
  US 20080155012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A user may access a host server and receive display information within a single browser window. The display information includes at least one lens, wherein each lens controls server side web browsing and allows the user to view a separate web page from the Internet. The host server provides personalized web browsing capability specific to a particular user independent of the browser, device or location of the user. After the user submits a request to view a particular web page, the web page information is retrieved by the host server and transmitted to the user for display within a selected lens. Each lens controls server-side web browsing through independent navigational controls, such as a horizontal and vertical scroll bar, a resize button and the like. One lens may also control the web content displayed in another lens. The host server may reformat entire web pages so that they can be displayed within a lens without the need for scrolling. Additionally, each lens may have multiple cookies associated therewith. Users may further submit bookmarks which are applicable to one or more of the lenses. Bookmarks may be recognized through initiating a single command.

Claims

1. A method, performed by a host server, for bookmarking a web page presented to a user at a remote device, comprising:

transmitting a web page corresponding to a received uniform resource locator, said web page for display in a window of a browser on said remote device;

receiving at the host server a single command from said user to bookmark said web page; and

storing a bookmark identifier by the server corresponding to said web page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said single command is received through a bookmark command button associated with said window.

3. A method for bookmarking a web page received by a user at a remote device, comprising:

receiving a web page corresponding to a uniform resource locator, said web page displayed in a window; and

transmitting a single command to a host server to bookmark said web page.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said single command is transmitted through a bookmark command button associated with said window.

5. A host server for bookmarking a web page presented to a user at a remote device, comprising:

A processor and storage device operative with a program running on the host server to;

(i) receive a uniform resource locator transmitted by said user through a window of a browser on said remote device;

(ii) transmit a web page corresponding to said uniform resource locator for display in said window;

(iii) receive a single command from said user to bookmark said web page; and

(iv) store a bookmark identifier corresponding to said web page.

6. The host server of claim 5, wherein said single command is received through a bookmark command button associated with said window.

7. A remote device for bookmarking a web page received by a user from a host server, comprising:

a storage device; and

a processor connected to the storage device, the storage device storing a program for controlling the processor;

the processor operative with the program to,

(i) transmit a uniform resource locator to said host server through a window of a browser on said remote device;

(ii) receive a web page corresponding to said uniform resource locator displayed in said window; and

(iii) transmit a single command to bookmark said web page.

8. The remote device of claim 7, wherein said single command is transmitted through a bookmark command button associated with said window.

9. A computer readable medium having computer executable software code stored thereon for bookmarking a web page presented by a host server to a user at a remote device, comprising:

code for receiving a uniform resource locator transmitted by said user through a window of a browser on said remote device;

code for transmitting a web page corresponding to said uniform resource locator for display in said window;

code for receiving a single command from said user to bookmark said web page; and

code for storing a bookmark identifier corresponding to said web page.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said single command is received through a bookmark command button associated with said window.

11. A computer readable medium having computer executable software code stored thereon for bookmarking a web page received by a user on a remote device, comprising:

code for transmitting a uniform resource locator to a host server through a window of a browser on said remote device;

code for receiving a web page corresponding to said uniform resource locator displayed in said window; and

code for transmitting a single command to bookmark said web page.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein said single command is transmitted through a bookmark command button associated with said window.