METHOD OF SELECTING OBJECTS IN WEB PAGES

• US 20090327233A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mobile Design Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mobile Design Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: WANG, Hong-Yung, CHEN, Ming-Hua
• Application Number:
  US12/163,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327233A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links

Abstract

A method of selecting objects in web pages provides users with conveniently selecting objects of interest in a target web page. With the method of the present invention, it is not necessary for the users to either know the makeup language for the web pages or create a program reserved for capturing required contents in the target web page. The method of the present invention provides an easy operational flow for the users to select required contents in the target web page.

Claims

1. A method of selecting objects in web pages applied to an electronic device that is capable of connecting to the Internet, and the method comprising acts of:

receiving a connecting request containing a web address of a target web page;

searching and connecting to the target web page over the Internet based on the connecting request;

capturing complete source codes of the target web page;

analyzing the target web page, wherein the contents in the target web page are transformed into multiple content objects, and each content object is designated with a unique number;

duplicating the target web page layout to create an object selecting page having the content objects;

receiving a selecting object request containing the unique number of the selected content object from the object selecting page; and

establishing a capture rule having the web address of the target web page and the unique number of the selected content object.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the object selecting page contains hyperlinks if the selected content in the target web page contains the hyperlinks;

after the act of receiving a selecting object request, the method further comprises acts of;

receiving a hyperlink connecting request containing a web address of a hyperlink web page;

capturing complete source codes of the hyperlink web page over the Internet based on the hyperlink connecting request;

analyzing the hyperlink web page, wherein contents in the hyperlink web page are transformed into multiple sub-content objects, and each sub-content object is designated with a unique number;

duplicating the hyperlink web page layout to create a sub-object selecting page having the sub-content objects;

receiving a sub-selecting object request containing the unique number of the selected sub-content object from the sub-object selecting page; and

establishing a sub-capture rule having the web address of the hyperlink web page and the unique number of the selected sub-content object; and

the act of establishing a capture rule having the web address of the target web page and the unique number of the selected content object further saves the sub-capture rule in the corresponding capture rule.