Method for Presenting a Web Page

• US 20090100356A1
• Filed: 10/16/2007
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kujda, David P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,104,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for presenting a web page which presents a preview of a web page when loading the web page. The preview may be a smaller version of the web page, which is fitted to be completely contained in one screen. The preview may include a smaller version of each module on the web page, and may be expanded to a web page in full size when the loading is finished. If a user expresses interests in one module, that module may be loaded and displayed first.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a web page, wherein the web page comprises at least two modules which, when displayed together, fills more than 100% of a screen;

loading the web page;

displaying a preview of the web page, wherein the preview comprises a small representation of each of the modules and is fitted into one screen; and

expanding at least one said small representation to full size.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the modules are loaded in parallel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the modules are loaded one after another.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a loaded portion of a module is displayed on the preview in real time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed when all modules are loaded.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a small representation has been selected.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

when a user has selected a small representation, loading a module corresponding to the selected small representation while suspending loading of another module.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the name of a module on one side of its small representation.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying of the web page further comprises:

automatically expanding the preview to the web page in full size when all modules are loaded.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying of the web page further comprises:

automatically expanding the preview to the web page in full size after a predetermined period of time from completion of loading of all modules.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium containing program code for performing the method of claim 1.