INFORMED PARTITIONING OF DATA IN A MARKUP-BASED DOCUMENT

• US 20120297292A1
• Filed: 05/16/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Dougherty, Michael, Smith, Adam, Bertolami, Joe
• Granted Patent: US 9,015,576 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/238
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/149 Adaptation of the text data for streaming purposes, e.g. Efficient XML Interchange [EXI] format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying a first portion of a markup language document on a first device and displaying a second portion of the markup language document on a second device for interaction with the first portion (e.g., allowing a smart phone to control a video playing on a separate monitor). A markup language document can be created by a developer, where first and second portions of the document are delineated by a remote device tag. The remote device tag can be used to instruct a first device parsing the document to send the second portion to a second (e.g., remote) device. The first portion of the document can be rendered by the first device, and displayed on a display coupled with the first device; and a rendered version of the second portion can be displayed by a display coupled with second device.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a first portion of a markup language document on a first device and displaying a second portion of the markup language document on a second device for interaction with the first portion, comprising:

parsing the markup language document using the first device;

rendering the first portion of the markup language document based at least in part upon the parsing, using the first device, for displaying on a display coupled with the first device; and

sending the second portion of the markup language document to the second device, using a remote device tag in the markup language document based at least in part on the parsing, the second portion sent for displaying by the second device.

2. The method of claim 1, sending the second portion of the markup language document comprising sending a rendered view of the second portion of the markup language document.

3. The method of claim 1, sending the second portion of the markup language document comprising sending markup language code comprising the second portion for rendering by the second device.

4. The method of claim 1, sending the second portion of the markup language document comprising sending a request to a remote server comprising the markup language document to provide markup language code comprising the second portion to the second device for rendering.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving an indication of an input interaction with the second portion of the markup language document from the second device.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising updating the rendering one or more portions of the markup language document based on the indication.

7. The method of claim 5, comprising one or more of:

updating the rendered first portion on the first device, based on the input interaction with the second portion; and

sending an updated second portion to the second device, based on the input interaction with the second portion.

8. The method of claim 5, receiving an indication of an input interaction with the second portion of the markup language document from the second device comprising one or more of:

receiving one or more coordinates corresponding to interaction with an image displayed by the second device;

receiving one or more vectors corresponding to interaction with an image comprising an image of the second portion of the markup language document displayed by the second device; and

receiving input data derived from markup language code, comprised in the second portion of the markup language document.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying the second device using the remote device tag in the markup language document.

10. The method of claim 9, identifying the second device comprising identifying a device in the vicinity of the first device, such that a user of the second device can view the display of the first device and a display of the second device substantially concurrently.

11. The method of claim 9, sending the second portion of the markup language document to the second device comprising sending the second portion to the identified second device using one or more of:

a wireless connection between the first device and the second device;

a local network connection between the first device and the second device;

a remote network connection between the first device and the second device; and

a wired connection between the first device and the second device.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving the markup language document from a remote server.

13. A system for displaying a first portion of a markup language document on a first device and displaying a second portion of the markup language document on a second device for interaction with the first portion, comprising:

a document parsing component configured to parse the markup language document to identify a remote device tag;

a first rendering component, operably coupled with the document parsing component, and configured to render a first portion of the markup language document for displaying on a first display based at least in part upon the parsing by the document parsing component; and

a sending component, operably coupled with the document parsing component, and configured to send a second portion of the markup language document to a remote device, the second portion identified by the remote device tag in the markup language document.

14. The system of claim 13, comprising a second display configured to display the second portion for the remote device based at least in part upon a parsed portion of the markup language document.

15. The system of claim 13, comprising a second document rendering component configured to render the second portion of the markup language document for the remote device.

16. The system of claim 13, the markup language document comprising one or more of:

a hypertext markup language (HTML) based document;

an extensible markup language (XML) based document; and

an application programming interface (API) associated with a web-based document.

17. The system of claim 13, the second portion sent to the remote device comprising one or more of:

a image-based lay-out version based at least in part upon a rendered second portion of the markup language document; and

markup language code identified in the markup language document by the remote device tag.

18. The system of claim 13, comprising a connection between the sending component and the remote device, comprising one or more of:

a local wireless connection;

a local network connection;

a remote cloud-based connection; and

a remote network connection.

19. The system of claim 13, comprising an input component configured to:

receive an indication of an input interaction with the second portion from the remote device; and

update at least a portion of the markup language document in response to the indication, the update comprising one or more of;

an update to at least a portion of the rendered first portion of the markup language document; and

an update to at least a portion of the second portion of the markup language document sent to the remote device.

20. A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed via a processor on a computer perform a method for displaying a first portion of a markup language document on a first device and displaying a second portion of the markup language document on a second device for interaction with the first portion, comprising:

receiving the markup language document from a remote server;

parsing the markup language document using the first device;

identifying a remote device tag in the markup language document;

identifying the second device using the remote device tag, comprising identifying a remote device in the vicinity of the first device, such that a user of the second device can view a display of the first device and a display of the second device substantially concurrently;

rendering the first portion of the markup language document for displaying on the display of the first device based at least in part upon the parsing; and

sending the second portion of the markup language document to the second device for rendering and displaying on the display of the second device based at least in part upon the parsing;

receiving an indication of an input interaction with the second portion of the markup language document from the second device; and

updating at least one rendered portion of the markup language document based on the indication.