WEBPAGE HISTORY VIEW

• US 20080294974A1
• Filed: 05/24/2007
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Nurmi, Mikko, Huupponen, Antti
• Application Number:
  US11/753,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20080294974A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A system and method of selecting a web page from a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages are represented using a plurality of thumbnails is provided. In addition, the plurality of web pages can comprise previously visited web pages and previewed web pages. The system and method further provides a visual indicator that is either displayed by default upon the selection of the web page or is drawn by a user. The visual indicator substantially encompasses a desired portion of the selected web page for initial viewing upon loading or re-loading of the selected web page. Alternatively, the visual indicator can be positioned so that at a predetermined proximity to a desired portion of the web page, the desired portion of the web page is focused on for initial viewing. Remaining portions of the selected web page not encompassed by the visual indicator are not initially displayed.

Claims

1. A method of selectively displaying content, comprising:

selecting a document, the document comprising at least one of a moved back to document, a moved forward to document, and a previewed document, the content of which cannot be displayed in its entirety at a single given moment;

indicating at least one desired portion of the document that is to be first displayed on the display; and

displaying the desired portion of the document on the display upon loading the document.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, navigating among a plurality of at least one of either moved back to documents, moved forward to documents, and previewed documents.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the document comprises a web page.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the loading of the document comprises accessing and processing a uniform resource locator associated with the document for displaying the document in a mobile browser application display.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the loading of the document comprises re-loading a uniform resource locator of a previously visited web page.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the document includes displayable content.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the loading of the document comprises retrieving a file in which the document is stored, opening the file, and retrieving the displayable content for display in a mobile browser application display.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicating of the at least one desired portion of the document comprises:

navigating within a thumbnail representation of the document utilizing at least one of a graphical and a regional indicator; and

positioning the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator so that the at least one desired portion of the document is substantially encompassed by the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein if the at least one desired portion of the document substantially encompassed by the graphical indicator does not substantially fill the display, displaying additional content substantially surrounding the at least one desired portion of the document.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein if the at least one desired portion of the document substantially encompassed by the graphical indicator does not substantially fill the display, magnifying the at least one desired portion of the document to substantially fill the display.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein a default position of the at least one of the graphical and regional indicators substantially encompasses a latest viewed portion of the document, and wherein a user can re-position the at least one of the graphical and regional indicators to substantially encompass the at least one desired portion of the document.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the at least one of the graphical and the regional indicators are dynamically adjustable with regard to at least one of a size component and an accuracy component.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicating of the at least one desired portion of the document comprises:

navigating within a thumbnail representation of the document utilizing at least one of a graphical and a regional indicator; and

automatically positioning the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator so that the at least one desired portion of the document is within a predetermined proximity to the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicating of the at least one desired portion of the document comprises:

choosing a general area of a thumbnail representation of the document substantially proximate to the at least one desired portion of the document; and

drawing a graphical indicator substantially about the general area and substantially encompassing the at least one desired portion of the document.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the display comprises a touch screen display.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the at least one desired portion of the document in accordance with a desired formatting scheme, wherein the desired formatting scheme includes at least one of centering and re-centering content contained within the desired portion of the document.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the content includes at least a web syndication feed, a multimedia object, and an input field.

18. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor unit; and

a memory unit operatively connected to the processing unit and including;

computer code for selecting a document, the document comprising at least one of a moved back to document, a moved forward to document, and a previewed document, the content of which cannot be displayed in its entirety at a single given moment;

computer code for indicating at least one desired portion of the document that is to be first displayed on the display; and

computer code for displaying the at least one desired portion of the document on the display upon loading the document

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the memory unit further comprises computer code for navigating among a plurality of at least one of either moved back to documents, moved forward to documents, and previewed documents.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the document comprises a web page.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the computer code for loading the document includes computer code for accessing and processing a uniform resource locator associated with the document for displaying the document in a mobile browser application display.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the computer code for loading the document includes computer code for re-loading a uniform resource locator of a previously visited web page

23. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the document includes displayable content.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the computer code for loading the document includes computer code for retrieving a file in which the document is stored, opening the file, and retrieving the displayable content for display in a mobile browser application display.

25. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the computer code for indicating the at least one desired portion of the document includes computer code for:

navigating within a thumbnail representation of the document utilizing at least one of a graphical and a regional indicator; and

positioning the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator so that the at least one desired portion of the document is substantially encompassed by the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the memory unit further comprises computer code for displaying additional content substantially surrounding the at least one desired portion of the document upon a determination that the at least one desired portion of the document substantially encompassed by the graphical indicator does not substantially fill the display.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein a default position of the at least one of the graphical and regional indicators substantially encompasses a latest viewed portion of the document, and wherein the memory unit further comprises computer code for allowing a user to re-position the at least one of the graphical and regional indicators to substantially encompass the at least one desired portion of the document.

28. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the memory unit further comprises computer code for magnifying the at least one desired portion of the document to substantially fill the display upon a determination that the at least one desired portion of the document substantially encompassed by the graphical indicator does not substantially fill the display.

29. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the at least one of the graphical and the regional indicators are dynamically adjustable with regard to at least one of a size component and an accuracy component.

30. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the computer code for indicating the at least one desired portion of the document includes computer code for:

navigating within a thumbnail representation of the document utilizing at least one of a graphical and a regional indicator; and

automatically positioning the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator so that the at least one desired portion of the document is within a predetermined proximity to the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator.

31. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the computer code for indicating the at least one desired portion of the document includes computer code for:

choosing a general area of a thumbnail representation of the document substantially proximate to the at least one desired portion of the document; and

drawing a graphical indicator substantially about the general area and substantially encompassing the at least one desired portion of the document.

32. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the display comprises a touch screen display.

33. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the memory unit further comprises computer code for displaying the at least one desired portion of the document in accordance with a desired formatting scheme, and wherein the desired formatting scheme includes at least one of centering and re-centering content contained within the desired portion of the document.

34. The apparatus of claim 33, wherein the content includes at least a web syndication feed, a multimedia object, and an input field.

35. A computer program product for selectively displaying content, embodied on a computer-readable medium, comprising:

computer code for selecting a document, the document comprising at least one of a moved back to document, a moved forward to document, and a to-be-viewed document, the content of which cannot be displayed in its entirety at a single given moment;

computer code for indicating at least one desired portion of the document that is to be first displayed on the display; and

computer code for displaying the at least one desired portion of the document on the display upon loading the document.

36. The computer program product of claim 35, wherein the computer code for indicating the desired portion of the document includes computer code for:

navigating within a thumbnail representation of the document utilizing at least one of a graphical and a regional indicator; and

positioning the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator so that the at least one desired portion of the document is substantially encompassed by the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator.

37. A device, comprising:

a memory unit;

a processor unit operatively connected to the memory unit; and

small screen display unit for displaying web content;

wherein the memory unit includes a computer program product, including;

computer code for displaying a plurality of thumbnail representations of web pages previously visited by a user;

computer code for allowing the user to visually navigate through the thumbnail representations;

computer code for further allowing the user to select one of the plurality of thumbnail representations;

computer code for graphically indicating at least one desired portion of a web page represented by the thumbnail representation, wherein the computer code for the indicating of the desired portion includes computer code for allowing the user to position a graphical indicator so that the at least one desired portion is substantially encompassed by the graphical indicator;

computer code for re-loading the web page represented by the thumbnail representation for display; and

computer code for initially displaying only the at least one desired portion of the web page upon re-loading.

39. An apparatus, comprising:

display means;

at least one actuating means for controlling content to be displayed on the display means and including;

selecting means configured to operate in accordance with the at least one actuating means for selecting a document, the document comprising at least one of a moved back to document, a moved forward to document, and a previewed document, the content of which cannot be displayed in its entirety at a single given moment;

indicating means configured to operate in accordance with the at least one actuating means for indicating at least one desired portion of the document that is to be first displayed on the display; and

portion display means for displaying the at least one desired portion of the document on the display upon loading the document. The apparatus of claim 43, wherein the indicating means comprises;

navigation means for navigating within a thumbnail representation of the document utilizing at least one of a graphical and a regional indicator; and

positioning means for positioning the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator so that the at least one desired portion of the document is substantially encompassed by the at least one of the graphical indicator and the regional indicator.

38. The device of claim 39, wherein the memory unit further comprises computer code for at least one of saving the at least one desired portion of the web page, printing the at least one desired portion of the web page, and forwarding the at least one desired portion of the web page via a messaging function of the device.