DISPLAYING CONTENT ON MULTIPLE WEB PAGES

• US 20110126113A1
• Filed: 11/23/2009
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sharma, Asankhaya, Dhingra, Prashant Kumar
• Application Number:
  US12/623,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20110126113A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to displaying content on multiple pages. In aspects, a request for content is received from a browsing component. The content is divided into pages suitable for displaying on a display associated with the browsing component. Navigation elements may be embedded in the pages to allow a user using the browsing component to navigate between pages corresponding to the content. The actions of dividing the content into multiple pages may occur on a content server, an entity intermediate to the content server and a client hosting the browsing component, or a component of the client.

Claims

1. A method implemented at least in part by a computer, the method comprising:

receiving, from a browser component, a request for content;

obtaining the content from a content server;

determining page breaks for dividing the content into multiple pages for display on a target display; and

providing at least one of the pages to the browser component.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a request for content comprises receiving the request at an entity that is logically between the content server and the browser component.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving the request at an entity that is logically between the content server and the browser component comprises receiving the request at a content service and wherein determining page breaks that divide the content into multiple pages comprises the content service determining the page breaks based on display characteristics of a display associated with the browser component.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving the request at an entity that is between the content server and the browser component comprises receiving the request at a pagination component of a client that hosts the browser and wherein determining page breaks that divide the content into multiple pages comprises the pagination component determining the page breaks from the content received from the content server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining page breaks that divide the content into multiple pages comprises:

rendering the content to a virtual display;

capturing a screen shot of the virtual display;

identifying graphic elements of the screen shot; and

dividing the content into multiple pages based on the graphic elements and one or more characteristics of the target display.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining page breaks that divide the content into multiple pages comprises:

parsing code included in the content;

identifying graphic elements represented by the code; and

dividing the content into multiple pages based on the graphic elements and one or more characteristics of the target display.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining page breaks that divide the content into multiple pages comprises parsing the content to locate page break markers that are applicable to the target display and ignoring other page break markers that are inapplicable to the target display.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding a navigation element to the at least one of the pages before providing the at least one of the pages to the browser component, the navigation element indicating at least another one of the pages reachable from the at least one of the pages.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein adding a navigation element to the at least one of the pages comprises adding one or more of a tab element, hyperlink element, and number element.

10. A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions, which when executed perform actions, comprising:

receiving a request for content, the request associated with a client having a target display;

receiving an indication of one or more characteristics of the target display;

determining a type of the target display based on the one or more characteristics;

based on the type, determining page breaks for dividing the content into multiple pages for display on the target display; and

providing at least one of the pages to the client.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein receiving an indication of one or more characteristics of the target display comprises receiving data including one or more of width, height, number of pixels, spacing of pixels, color capabilities, and touch sensitivity capabilities of the target display.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein determining a type of the target display based on the one or more characteristics comprises determining a discrete classification of the target display, each discrete classification indicating displays having similar characteristics.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein determining page breaks comprises:

rendering the content to a virtual display;

capturing a screen shot of the virtual display;

identifying graphic elements of the screen shot; and

dividing the content into multiple pages based on the type and the graphic elements.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein determining page breaks comprises:

parsing code included in the content;

identifying graphic elements represented by the code; and

dividing the content into multiple pages based on the type and the graphic elements.

15. The computer storage medium of claim 10, further comprising placing page break markers into code corresponding to the pages, the page break markers corresponding to the page breaks.

16. The computer storage medium of claim 15, further comprising placing additional page break markers into code corresponding to the pages, the additional page break markers indicating page breaks for one or more other types of displays.

17. The computer storage medium of claim 10, further comprising adding a navigation element to the at least one of the pages, the navigation element indicating at least another one of the pages reachable from the at least one of the pages.

18. The computer storage medium of claim 17, wherein adding a navigation element to the at least one of the pages comprises adding one or more of a tab element, hyperlink element, and number element.

19. In a computing environment, an apparatus, comprising:

a communications component operable to receive, from a browser component, a request for content corresponding to a Web page;

a display classifier operable to determine a type of display of a client hosting the browser component, the type indicating characteristics of the display;

a graphic element identifier operable to locate graphic elements in the content; and

a page break manager operable to determine page breaks for dividing the content into multiple pages for rendering on the display, the page break manager determining the page breaks using the type of display and the graphic elements in the content.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, further comprising a screen shot manager operable to capture a screen shot of the content as rendered on a virtual display, the graphic element identifier being operable to locate graphic elements in the content via the screen shot.