METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCODING WEB PAGE TO BE DISPLAYED ON MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20100146413A1
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: YU, Seung Hyun
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transcoding a web page into a format suitable for display on a mobile terminal. The method includes dividing a web page into a plurality of segments, transcoding each of the segments into a format suitable for display on a mobile terminal, storing the transcoded segments and location icons in association with each other, each of the location icons indicating a location of each segment in the web page, and if one of the location icons is selected on the mobile terminal, providing a segment associated with the selected location icon to the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A method of transcoding content to be displayed on a mobile terminal, comprising:

dividing a web page into a plurality of segments;

transcoding each of the plurality of segments into a format suitable for display on the mobile terminal;

storing the transcoded plurality of segments in association with a plurality of location icons each of the plurality of location icons indicating a location of a corresponding segment in the web page; and

providing a first segment associated with a selected location icon to the mobile terminal in response to selection of one of the plurality of location icons on the mobile terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein dividing the web page into a plurality of segments comprises:

calculating a layout of a plurality of elements of the web page by referring to a source of the web page; and

determining a structure of the web page based on the calculated layout.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a location of each of the plurality of segments of the web page based on a result of at least one of header searching, left sidebar searching, right sidebar searching, footer searching, and body searching.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein header searching comprises determining a single segment as a header if the single segment is fully included in a zone at a top of the web page.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein left sidebar searching comprises determining a single segment as a left sidebar if the single segment is fully included in a zone at a left side of the web page.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein right sidebar searching comprises determining a single segment as a right sidebar if the single segment is fully included in a zone at a right side of the web page.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein footer searching comprises determining a single segment as a footer if the single segment is fully included in a zone at a bottom of the web page.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating at least one of the plurality of location icons.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising an executable program which, when executed, performs the steps of:

dividing a web page into a plurality of segments;

transcoding each of the plurality of segments into a format suitable for display on the mobile terminal;

storing the transcoded plurality of segments in association with a plurality of location icons each of the plurality of location icons indicating a location of a corresponding segment in the web page; and

providing a first segment associated with a selected location icon to the mobile terminal in response to selection of one of the plurality of location icons on the mobile terminal.

10. A method of displaying content on a mobile terminal, comprising:

displaying N location icons indicating locations of corresponding N segments of a web page divided into the N segments, N being a natural number greater than or equal to two;

receiving a signal indicating selection of one of the N location icons; and

displaying a first segment associated with the selected location icon on the mobile terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the N segments are transcoded based on a screen size of the mobile terminal.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the displayed segment is one of a header, a left sidebar, a right sidebar, a body, and a footer.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating at least one of the N location icons.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising an executable program which, when executed, performs the steps of:

displaying N location icons indicating locations of corresponding N segments of a web page divided into the N segments, N being a natural number greater than or equal to two;

receiving a signal indicating selection of one of the N location icons; and

displaying a first segment associated with the selected location icon on the mobile terminal.

15. A transcoder for transcoding content into a format suitable for display on a mobile terminal, comprising:

a web page-dividing module to divide a web page into a plurality of segments;

a transcoding module to transcode each of the plurality of segments into a format suitable for display on the mobile terminal;

an icon-associated storage to store the transcoded plurality of segments in association with a plurality of location icons, each location icon indicating a location of a corresponding segment in the web page; and

a content-providing module to provide a stored first segment associated with a selected location icon to the mobile terminal in response to selection of one of the plurality of location icons on the mobile terminal.

16. The transcoder of claim 15, further comprising:

a web page element-analyzing module to calculate a layout of a plurality of elements of the web page by referring to a source of the web page.

17. The transcoder of claim 16, wherein the web page-dividing module combines at least two of the plurality of elements based on the calculated layout and a size of the at least two of the plurality of elements.

18. The transcoder of claim 15, further comprising:

a web page structure-analyzing module to determine a location of each of the plurality of segments of the web page based on a result of at least one of header searching, left sidebar searching, right sidebar searching, footer searching, and body searching.

19. The transcoder of claim 15, further comprising:

a location icon-generating module to generate at least one location icon, each of the generated at least one location icons indicating a location of an associated segment of the web page.