METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HAVING ACCESS TO WEB PAGE

• US 20090024560A1
• Filed: 01/25/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SONG, Dong-Hyun, KIM, Hyo
• Application Number:
  US12/019,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20090024560A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for accessing a web page. The method includes searching a first web page for links and extracting path information of each link found; generating a link hierarchy composed of nodes, each having the extracted path information; displaying the generated link hierarchy; and receiving a signal, which selects a node in the displayed link hierarchy, accessing a second web page corresponding to path information of the selected node in response to the signal, and displaying the second web page.

Claims

1. A method of accessing web pages, the method comprising:

searching the first web page for links;

extracting path information of each link found;

generating a link hierarchy comprised of nodes, each having the extracted path information;

displaying the generated link hierarchy;

receiving a signal, which selects a node in the displayed link hierarchy;

accessing a second web page corresponding to path information of the selected node in response to the signal; and

displaying the second web page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the link hierarchy comprises generating a tree which indicates a hierarchical relationship between the nodes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating of the link hierarchy further comprises adjusting a number of nodes according to a setting.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the adjusting of the number of nodes comprises adjusting at least one of a depth of the tree and a number of nodes existing at a same level of the tree.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating of the tree comprises removing redundant trees if a same tree is found in one of an upper node and a lower node.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the generated link hierarchy comprises displaying the link hierarchy in one of a graphical user interface (GUI) form having a tree structure, an application form registered with a start button of Windows and a widget form.

7. An apparatus for accessing web pages, the apparatus comprising:

a link information extraction unit which searches the first web page for links and extracts path information of each link found;

a link hierarchy generation unit which generates a link hierarchy comprised of nodes, each having the extracted path information;

a link hierarchy display unit which displays the generated link hierarchy; and

a control unit which receives a signal, which selects a node in the displayed link hierarchy, accesses a second web page corresponding to path information of the selected node in response to the signal and displays the second web page.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the link hierarchy comprises a tree indicating a hierarchical relationship between the nodes.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the link hierarchy generation unit adjusts a number of nodes according to a setting.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the link hierarchy generation unit adjusts at least one of a depth of the tree and the number of nodes existing at a same level of the tree.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the link hierarchy generation unit removes redundant trees if a same tree is found in one of an upper node and a lower node.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the link hierarchy display unit displays the link hierarchy in one of a graphical user interface (GUI) form having a tree structure, an application form registered with a start button of Windows and a widget form.