APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COMPOSING WEB DOCUMENT AND APPARATUS OF SETTING WEB DOCUMENT ARRANGEMENT

• US 20120311432A1
• Filed: 08/14/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Sung, Young-hun, Kim, Sang-ryong, Kim, Yeun-bae, Kim, Seong-woon, Choi, Chang-kyu
• Granted Patent: US 9,465,886 B2
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

An apparatus and method of composing a web document and an apparatus to set a web document arrangement are provided. The apparatus to compose a web document includes a generation module which generates a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document, a composition module which arranges the generated frames using a predetermined frame arrangement mode, and an output module which displays the arranged frames on a screen.

Claims

1. An apparatus to compose a web document, the apparatus comprising:

a generation module generating a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document;

a composition module arranging the generated frames using a predetermined frame arrangement mode; and

an output module displaying the arranged frames on a screen.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the composition module arranges the generated frames so that titles of the generated frames can be prevented from overlapping from one another; and

the predetermined frame arrangement mode includes at least one of a cascade mode, a thumbnail mode, and a tree mode.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when one of the arranged frames is selected, the composition module moves the selected frame forward and moves a frame previously followed by the selected frame backward so that the selected frame becomes a first frame and the frame previously followed by the selected frame becomes a last frame.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the output module displays a maximum of a predetermined number of frames on the screen, the predetermined number being determined according to a size of the screen; and

when the number of arranged frames exceeds the maximum number of frames that can be display on the screen by the output module, the output module groups a number of frames corresponding to a difference between the number of arranged frames and the maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen by the output module into one or more tabs, and displays the tabs at a predefined location on the screen.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein, when one of the tabs is selected, the composition module arranges a plurality of frames included in the selected tab on the screen as a cascade.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the generation module searches for tags that divide the web document into one or more paragraphs and generates a frame based on a plurality of pieces of information included between a start tag and an end tag that is paired with the start tag.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a menu providing a module setting the predetermined frame arrangement mode of arranging the plurality of frames on the screen.

7. A method of composing a web document, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document;

arranging the generated frames using a predetermined frame arrangement mode; and

displaying the arranged frames on a screen.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the arranging comprises arranging the generated frames so that titles of the generated frames can be prevented from overlapping from one another; and

the predetermined frame arrangement mode comprises at least one of a cascade mode, a thumbnail mode, and a tree mode.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the arranging comprises, when one of the arranged frames is selected, moving the selected frame forward and moving a frame previously followed by the selected frame backward so that the selected frame becomes a first frame and the frame previously followed by the selected frame becomes a last frame.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the outputting comprises:

outputting a predetermined number of frames on the screen, the predetermined number of frames being determined according to a size of the screen; and

when the number of arranged frames exceeds a maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen by the output module, grouping a number of frames corresponding to a difference between the number of arranged frames and the maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen by the output module into one or more tabs, and displaying the tabs at a predefined location on the screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the arranging comprises, when a tab of the one or more tabs is selected, arranging a plurality of frames included in the selected tab on the screen as a cascade.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the generating comprises searching for tags that divide the web document into paragraphs and generating a frame based on a plurality of pieces of information included between a start tag and an end tag that is paired with the start tag.