METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDISPLAYING A WEB PAGE

• US 20120089899A1
• Filed: 10/11/2010
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Palaima, Mark P., Yao, Yitao
• Application Number:
  US12/901,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20120089899A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A method and system for redisplaying a web page is provided. An example method comprises accessing a web page received at a computer system, analyzing the structured text of the web page, and identifying a plurality of content sections. A rendering module renders a web page view comprising the plurality of sections.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing a web page received at a computer system, the web page represented comprising structured text;

analyzing the structured text of the web page;

based on the analyzing, identifying a plurality of content sections, the web page comprising the plurality of content sections;

rendering, on a display device of the computer system, a web page view, the web page view comprising a first representation of a first section from the plurality of content sections, the first representation being actionable to cause rendering of a second representation of the first section and to cause hiding respective representations of other sections from the plurality of sections.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the web page view comprising the first representation of a first section is an index representation of the plurality of sections.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the index representation of the plurality of sections comprises respective thumb nail representations of the plurality of sections.

4. The method of claim 2, comprising based on the analyzing, determining representative information for each section of the plurality of sections.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising:

detecting a section view request event associated with the first representation of the first section;

responsive to the section view request event, replace the web page view with a section view, the section view presenting the first section while hiding other sections from the plurality of sections.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising:

responsive to a toggle event, replacing the section view with the web page view.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

responsive to a customization request, rendering on the display device a modified web page view, the modified web page view lacking the representation of the first section.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the structured text is HyperText Markup Language (HTML) text.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising injecting, using a browser plug-in, a smart viewer module into the structured text of the web page.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system is a mobile device.

11. A computer-implemented system comprising:

a parsing module to;

access a web page received at a computer system, the web page represented comprising structured text,

analyze the structured text of the web page, and

based on the analyzing, identify a plurality of content sections, the web page comprising the plurality of content sections; and

a rendering module to render, on a display device of the computer system, a web page view, the web page view comprising a first representation of a first section from the plurality of content sections, the first representation being actionable to cause rendering of a second representation of the first section and to cause hiding respective representations of other sections from the plurality of sections.

12. The system of claim 11, comprising an index builder to generate an index representation of the plurality of sections, wherein the web page view is the index representation of the plurality of sections.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the index representation of the plurality of sections comprises respective thumb nail representations of the plurality of sections.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the index builder is to determine representative information for each section of the plurality of sections, based on analyzing of the structured text of the web page.

15. The system of claim 11, comprising an event detector to detect a section view request event associated with the first representation of the first section, wherein the rendering module is to replace the web page view with a section view responsive to the section view request event, the section view presenting the first section while hiding other sections from the plurality of sections.

16. The system of claim 15, comprising a toggle module to replace the section view with the web page view responsive to a toggle event.

17. The system of claim 11, comprising a customization module to render, on the display device a modified web page view responsive to a customization request, the modified web page view lacking the representation of the first section.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the structured text is HyperText Markup Language (HTML) text.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the computer system is a mobile device.

20. A machine-readable non-transitory medium having instruction data to cause a machine to:

access a web page received at a computer system, the web page represented comprising structured text;

analyze the structured text of the web page;

based on the analyzing, identify a plurality of content sections, the web page comprising the plurality of content sections; and

render, on a display device of the computer system, a web page view, the web page view comprising a first representation of a first section from the plurality of content sections, the first representation being actionable to cause rendering of a second representation of the first section and to cause hiding respective representations of other sections from the plurality of sections.