Content Navigation Method and User Interface

• US 20090100375A1
• Filed: 10/16/2007
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kujda, David
• Application Number:
  US11/873,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20090100375A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A content navigation method presents on a screen a number of small boxes, each of which may be a smaller version of another web page or of a portion of a long web page. When a user clicks on a small box, the web page or the portion of a web page corresponding to the small box may be dynamically uploaded and displayed. Accordingly, the user can easily jump to the content in which he/she is interested: another web page or a portion of a long web page.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting a smaller version of a visual representation of at least part of a web page in a first display area of a user interface;

determining whether a user has selected the smaller version of the representation;

dynamically uploading an updated version of the representation when the user has selected the smaller version of the representation; and

displaying the updated version of the representation in a second display area of the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation is a visual representation of the entire web page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation is a visual representation of a module of the web page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selects the smaller version of the representation by hovering a mouse pointer or cursor over the smaller version of the representation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selects the smaller version of the representation by clicking on the smaller version of the representation.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising highlighting the smaller version of the representation when the user has selected it.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a pointer pointing at the smaller version of the representation when the user has selected it.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a text box to the smaller version of the representation.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the web page is a recently viewed web page in a user'"'"'s browsing history.

10. A computer program product having program code, contained in a computer-readable medium, for performing the method of claim 1.

11. A user interface, comprising:

a first display area for displaying a toolbar, wherein the toolbar comprises at least two small boxes, each of which is filled with a smaller version of a visual representation of at least part of a web page; and

a second display area for displaying an updated version of the representation in full size,

wherein when a user has selected a smaller version of the representation, an updated version of the representation is dynamically uploaded and displayed in the second display area.

12. The user interface of claim 11, wherein the representation is a visual representation of the entire web page.

13. The user interface of claim 11, wherein the representation is a visual representation of a module of the web page.

14. The user interface of claim 11, wherein the first display area allows a user to select a smaller version of the representation by hovering a mouse pointer or cursor over the smaller version of the representation.

15. The user interface of claim 11, wherein the first display area allows a user to select a smaller version of the representation by clicking on the smaller version of the representation.

16. The user interface of claim 11, wherein a smaller version of the representation is highlighted when it is selected.

17. The user interface of claim 11, further comprising a pointer pointing at a smaller version of the representation when it is selected.

18. The user interface of claim 11, further comprising a text box displayed at one side of a smaller version of a representation when a user points at the smaller version of the representation.

19. The user interface of claim 12, wherein the web page is a recently viewed web page in a user'"'"'s browsing history.

20. The user interface of claim 11, wherein the first display area is substantially smaller than the second display area.