SERVER SIDE WEB BROWSING AND MULTIPLE LENS SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20110246570A1
• Filed: 06/14/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CDN Innovations, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Gutenberg Printing LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Chiang, Hiang-Swee
• Granted Patent: US 9,684,734 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• 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: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A user may access a host server and receive display information within a single browser window. The display information includes at least one lens, wherein each lens controls server side web browsing and allows the user to view a separate web page from the Internet. The host server provides personalized web browsing capability specific to a particular user independent of the browser, device or location of the user. After the user submits a request to view a particular web page, the web page information is retrieved by the host server and transmitted to the user for display within a selected lens. Each lens controls server-side web browsing through independent navigational controls, such as a horizontal and vertical scroll bar, a resize button and the like. One lens may also control the web content displayed in another lens. The host server may reformat entire web pages so that they can be displayed within a lens without the need for scrolling. Additionally, each lens may have multiple cookies associated therewith. Users may further submit bookmarks which are applicable to one or more of the lenses. Bookmarks may be recognized through initiating a single command.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processing device configured to;

receive, over a network, a request for a new remote web session, the request including a user identifier;

match the user identifier to one of a plurality of entries in a database, the matching entry indicating a particular browser lens configuration used in a previous remote web session for the user identifier; and

transmit, over the network in response to matching the user identifier, display information configured for creating, based on the particular browser lens configuration, a plurality of lenses for presentation within a window of a browser on a remote device originating the new remote web session.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a memory configured to store a plurality of cookies,

wherein the processing device is further configured to associate each cookie with a respective one of the plurality of entries in the database, and to designate each cookie as belonging to a respective one of a plurality of lenses of the associated entry.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a memory configured to store a plurality of histories of web pages visited,

wherein the processing device is configured to associate each history with a respective one of the plurality of entries in the database, and to designate each history as belonging to a respective one of a plurality of lenses of the associated entry.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the processing device is further configured to create at least a first lens for presentation within the window of the browser on the remote device, and to create a second lens for presentation within the window of the browser on the remote device, wherein the first lens comprises a first display area and first navigation controls configured to control information displayed in the first display area, wherein the second lens comprises a second display area and second navigation controls configured to control information displayed in the second display area.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processing device is further configured to at a start of the n remote web session, display in the first display area a last web page visited in a corresponding lens of the previous web page session.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the processing device is configured to, at the start of the new remote web session, display in the second display area a last web page visited in a corresponding lens of the previous remote web session.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to

receive, from a different remote device, an additional request for a further remote web session, the additional request including the user identifier;

match the user identifier to one of the plurality of entries in the database in response to receiving the additional request, the matching entry indicating a particular browser lens configuration last used for the browser of the remote device in the new remote web session; and

transmit, to the different remote device in response to matching the user identifier for the additional request, display information configured for creating, based on the particular browser lens configuration used by the browser of the remote device, a plurality of lenses for presentation within a window of a browser of the different remote device.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the remote device and the different remote device comprise different platforms.

9. A method, comprising:

receiving, over a network, a request for a new remote web session, the request including a user identifier;

matching the user identifier to one of a plurality of entries in a database, the matching entry indicating a particular browser lens configuration used in a previous remote web session for the user identifier; and

in response to matching the user identifier, transmitting over the network display information for creating, based on the particular browser lens configuration, a plurality of lenses for presentation within a window of a browser on a remote device originating the new remote web session.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing a plurality of cookies;

associating each cookie with a respective one of the plurality of entries in the database; and

designating each cookie as belonging to a respective one of a plurality of lenses of the associated entry.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing a plurality of histories of web pages visited;

associating each history with a respective one of the plurality of entries in the database; and

designating each history as belonging to a respective one of a plurality of lenses of the associated entry.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

creating at least a first lens for presentation within the window of the browser on the remote device;

creating a second lens for presentation within the window of the browser on the remote device;

wherein the first lens comprises a first display area and first navigation controls configured to control info nation displayed in the first display area; and

wherein the second lens comprises a second display area and second navigation controls configured to control information displayed in the second display area.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

at a start of the new remote web session, displaying in the first display area a last web page visited in a corresponding lens of the previous web page session.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the processing device is configured to:

at the start of the new remote web session, display in the second display area a last web page visited in a corresponding lens of the previous web page session.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, from a different remote device, an additional request for a further remote web session, the additional request including the user identifier;

matching the user identifier to one of the plurality of entries in the database in response to receiving the additional request, the matching entry indicating the particular browser lens configuration last used for the browser of the remote device in the new remote web session; and

transmitting, to the different remote device information in response to matching the user identifier for the additional request, display information configured for creating, based on the particular browser lens configuration used by the browser of the remote device, a plurality of lenses for presentation within a window of a browser of the different remote device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the remote device and the different remote device comprise different platforms.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

means for associating user identifiers with stored browser lens configurations;

means for matching a user identifier value included in a network communication to a respective one of the stored browser lens configurations in response to receiving the network communication; and

means for transmitting over the network display information configured for creating, based on the matched browser lens configuration, a plurality of lenses for presentation within a window of a browser on a remote device.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

means for storing a plurality of cookies; and

means for associating each cookie with a respective lens of the stored browser lens configurations.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

means for storing a plurality of histories of web pages visited; and

means for associating each history with a respective lens of the stored browser lens configurations.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the display information causes a different last web page to be displayed in each of the lenses based on the stored plurality of histories of web pages visited.