Webpage processing method and system for mobile terminal

• US 20090199085A1
• Filed: 01/26/2009
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sang Min
• Application Number:
  US12/321,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20090199085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/126 Character encoding

Abstract

A webpage processing method and system for a mobile terminal is provided for correctly displaying a webpage encoded with a character set which is not supported by the mobile terminal. In a webpage processing method of the present inventions, the mobile terminal receives a webpage from a web server, selects a character set to be applied to the webpage, renders the webpage with the selected character set, and determines whether to apply at least one other character set to the webpage. The mobile terminal also receives a converted webpage, corresponding to the webpage encoded with a character set which is not supported by the mobile terminal, from a webpage agent to display the webpage correctly.

Claims

1. A webpage processing method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

receiving a webpage from a web server;

selecting a character set to be applied to the webpage;

rendering the webpage with the selected character set; and

determining whether to apply at least one other character set to the webpage.

2. The webpage processing method of claim 1, wherein determining whether to apply another character set comprises:

checking whether a number of errors occurred while rendering the web page is greater than a threshold value;

generating, when the number of errors is greater than the threshold value, different versions of the webpage by applying the at least one other character set to the webpage; and

presenting at least one of the different versions of the webpage on a screen.

3. The webpage processing method of claim 2, wherein presenting at least one of different versions of the webpage comprises:

comparing numbers of errors occurred in the different versions of the webpage; and

presenting the version of the webpage rendered with the least number of errors.

4. The webpage processing method of claim 1, wherein determining whether to apply at least one other character set to the webpage comprises:

checking whether a number of errors occurred while rendering the web page is greater than a threshold value;

requesting, when the number of errors is greater than the threshold value, a converted webpage comprising an image information and a link information from a webpage agent; and

receiving, from the webpage agent, the converted webpage.

5. The webpage processing method of claim 4, wherein a link information comprises:

positions of links extracted from the webpage;

characters or character strings representing the links; and

data indicated by the links.

6. The webpage processing method of claim 1, further comprises:

detecting a different character set application command input by a user, the different character set application command indicating at least one character set;

generating different versions of the webpage by applying the at least one character set; and

displaying the different versions of the webpage.

7. The webpage processing method of claim 6, wherein displaying the different versions of the webpage comprises:

presenting the different versions of the webpage on a screen, simultaneously; and

displaying, when a command for selecting one of the different versions is detected, the selected version of the webpage on the screen as a full screen image.

8. A webpage processing method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

receiving, at a webpage agent, a webpage from a web server;

generating an image information of the webpage;

generating a link information of the webpage; and

transmitting a converted webpage composed of the image information and the link information to the mobile terminal.

9. The webpage processing method of claim 8, wherein the link information comprises:

positions of links extracted from the webpage;

characters or character strings representing the links; and

data indicated by the links.

10. The webpage processing method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a request, from the mobile terminal, for the converted webpage.

11. A webpage processing system comprising:

a mobile terminal which receives the webpage from a web server and renders the webpage with a character set stored in a memory unit of the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal generates, when a number of errors occurred while rendering the webpage is greater than a threshold value, multiple versions of the webpage by applying at least one different character set.

12. The webpage processing system of claim 11, wherein the mobile terminal displays a version of the webpage this is rendered with a least number of errors.

13. The webpage processing system of claim 12, further comprising a webpage agent which receives the webpage from the web server creates a converted webpage composed of an image information and a link information extracted from the webpage, wherein the mobile terminal requests, when the least number of errors is greater than the threshold value, the webpage agent for the converted webpage.

14. The webpage processing system of claim 13, wherein the link information comprises:

positions of links extracted from the webpage;

characters or character strings representing the links; and

data indicated by the links.

15. The webpage processing system of claim 11, wherein the mobile terminal generates different versions of the webpage by applying at least one different character set in response to a different character set application command and displays at least one of the different versions of the webpage.

16. A webpage processing system comprising:

a mobile terminal which receives a webpage from a web server and renders the webpage with a character set stored in a memory unit,

wherein the mobile terminal generates different versions of the webpage by applying at least one different character set and displays one of the versions of the webpage in response to a selection command.

17. The webpage processing system of claim 16, wherein the mobile terminal presents the different versions of the webpage on a screen simultaneously.

18. The webpage processing system of claim 17, wherein the mobile terminal displays, when a command for selecting one of the different versions of the webpage is detected, the selected version of the webpage on the screen as a full screen image.

19. A webpage processing system comprising:

a web server which provides a webpage;

a webpage agent which receives the webpage from the web server creates a converted webpage composed of an image information and a link information extracted from the webpage; and

a mobile terminal which receives converted webpage from the webpage agent and displays the webpage on a screen.

20. The webpage processing system of claim 19, wherein the link information comprises:

positions of links extracted from the webpage;

characters or character strings representing the links; and

data indicated by the links.