CUSTOMIZING THE FORMAT OF WEB DOCUMENT PAGES RECEIVED AT REQUESTING COMPUTER CONTROLLED WEB TERMINALS

• US 20080235257A1
• Filed: 03/23/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Berens, Scott Henry
• Application Number:
  US11/690,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235257A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of computer controlled interactive receiving display terminals, there is provided an implementation for transmitting, from a Web site, the content of said requested Web document as a stream of data combined with a function at the receiving terminal enabling a user to customize a format in which displayed Web documents are generated a function for generating said requested hypertext Web document in said customized format from the received stream of data.

Claims

1. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of computer controlled interactive receiving display terminals for displaying requested hypertext Web documents of at least one display page containing text, images and embedded hyperlinks, a system for generating said requested Web hypertext documents at a receiving terminal comprising:

apparatus enabling a user at a receiving display terminal to request a hypertext Web document;

apparatus, responsive to said user requested apparatus, for transmitting, from a site on said Web, the content of said requested Web document as a stream of data;

apparatus, at said user'"'"'s receiving display terminal for enabling a user to customize a format in which displayed Web documents are generated; and

apparatus for generating said requested hypertext Web document in said customized format from said stream of data received at said receiving display terminal.

2. The system for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 1 wherein the stream of data is transmitted in an applet.

3. The system for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 1 wherein said customized format provides said requested hypertext Web document in a nonrectangular format.

4. The system for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 2 wherein said customized format provides said requested hypertext Web document in a curvilinear format.

5. The system for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 2 wherein said customized format provides said requested hypertext Web document in a triangular format.

6. The system for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 2 wherein the receiving computer controlled display terminal includes a Java Virtual Machine.

7. The system for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 1 wherein said hypertext Web documents are generated in a Markup Language format.

8. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of computer controlled interactive receiving display terminals for displaying requested hypertext Web documents of at least one display page containing text, images and embedded hyperlinks, a method for generating said requested Web hypertext documents at a receiving terminal comprising:

enabling a user at a receiving display terminal to request a hypertext Web document;

transmitting, from a site on said Web, the content of said requested Web document as a stream of data responsive to said user request;

enabling a user to customize a format in which displayed Web documents are generated at said user'"'"'s receiving display terminal; and

generating said requested hypertext Web document in said customized format from said stream of data received at said receiving display terminal.

9. The method for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 8 wherein the stream of data is transmitted in an applet.

10. The method for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 9 wherein said applet further includes a Java Virtual Machine for generating said Web hypertext document from said stream of data.

11. The method for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 8 wherein said customized format provides said requested hypertext Web document in a nonrectangular format.

12. The method for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 9 wherein said customized format provides said requested hypertext Web document in a curvilinear format.

13. The method for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 9 wherein the receiving computer controlled display terminal includes a Java Virtual Machine.

14. The method for generating the requested Web hypertext documents of claim 8 wherein said hypertext Web documents are generated in a Markup Language format.

15. A computer program comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to:

enable a user at a receiving display terminal to request a hypertext Web document;

transmit, responsive to said user request, the content of said requested Web document as a stream of data from a site on said Web;

enable a user to customize a format in which displayed Web documents are generated at said receiving display terminal; and

generate said requested hypertext Web document in said customized format from said stream of data received at said receiving display terminal.

16. The computer program of claim 15 wherein the stream of data is transmitted in an applet.

17. The computer program of claim 16 wherein said applet further includes a Java Virtual Machine for generating said Web hypertext document from said stream of data.

18. The computer program of claim 15 wherein the receiving computer controlled display terminal includes a Java Virtual Machine program.

19. The computer program of claim 15 wherein said hypertext Web documents are generated in a Markup Language format.

20. The computer program of claim 15 wherein said hypertext Web documents are generated in a customized nonrectangular format.