Web Page Authoring Tool for Structured Documents

• US 20090235158A1
• Filed: 05/19/2009
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Aaron Boodman, Dana A. Levine, David Jeske, Justin M. Rosenstein, Lilly Christine Irani, Ojan Vafai
• Inventors: Boodman, Aaron, Rosenstein, Justin M., Irani, Lilly Christine, Vafai, Ojan, Levine, Dana A., Jeske, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,514,235 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A web page is composed using a browser that displays an authoring web page containing an authoring tool embedded in the authoring web page. The authoring web page, as displayed in a browser window, includes a web page editing region that displays a web page under construction. The web page editing region further includes one or more user-specified instances of structured fields, each instance responsible for hosting content entered directly by the web page author through the browser window or identified by the web page authoring using the authoring tool. A composed web page is published, for example on the Internet. Thereafter, the composed web page can be rendered in a browser window of any client computer or device in a style consistent with the user-entered content in the web page editing region.

Claims

1. A method for composing a user-defined web page, comprising:

at a client, using a web browser executed at the client;

displaying in a first browser window an authoring web page, including displaying a graphical user interface of an authoring tool that is embedded in the authoring web page;

the displayed graphical user interface for composing the user-defined web page;

using the displayed graphical user interface of the authoring tool to receive user instructions, and responding to the user instructions by placing instances of predefined structured fields in the user-defined web page and associating user-specified content with the instances of the predefined structured fields; and

displaying a preview of the user-defined web page.