MODE IDENTIFICATION FOR SELECTIVE DOCUMENT CONTENT PRESENTATION

• US 20140359412A1
• Filed: 06/27/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Decker, Kevin, Donelli, Giovanni
• Granted Patent: US 10,185,782 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses that identify one of a plurality of modes from a web page associated with a document received at a browser are described. An identified mode may correspond to a user interface configuration. A portion of content may be extracted from the document for a presentation configured by the user interface configuration. A presentation of the extracted content may be displayed on a display screen while excluding a reset of the document without displaying the web page.

Claims

1. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a request to display a web page that comprises a first part of a multi-part article and other content that is not part of the multi-part article; and

in response to receiving the request to display the web page;

identifying a second part of the multi-part article that is not included in the web page based on information from the web page;

obtaining the second part of the multi-part article; and

displaying content that corresponds to the web page in a reader mode, wherein displaying the content that corresponds to the web page in the reader mode includes displaying the first part and second part of the multi-part article without displaying the other content from the web page.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the information of the web page includes a hyperlink to the second part of the multi-part article and wherein the second part of the multi-part article is obtained using the hyperlink.

3. The medium of claim 2, wherein different parts of the multi-part article are included in multiple web pages linked via different hyperlinks.

4. The medium of claim 3, wherein the obtaining the second part of the multi-part article comprises:

preloading the multiple web pages via the different hyperlinks, wherein the multiple web pages include the second web page and wherein the different hyperlinks include the hyperlink to the second web page.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the web pages correspond to document object trees embedded with anchor elements representing the different hyperlinks and wherein the preloading comprises:

recursively following the anchor elements to collect the multi-part article via the multiple web pages.

6. The medium of claim 5, wherein the different hyperlinks have document signatures indicating additional parts of the multi-part article, the method further comprising

determining if the multi-part article is continued based on the document signatures of the hyperlinks.

7. The medium of claim 6, wherein the document signatures include one or more common marks indicating page navigation, and wherein the determining if the multi-part article is continued comprises:

searching the document object trees to identify the anchor elements based on the common marks.

8. The medium of claim 5, wherein the different parts of the multi-part article are collected into an article tree, and wherein displaying the content that corresponds to the web page in the reader mode is based on a user interface configuration independent of the web page.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein the user interface configuration for the reader mode includes one or more pages laid out on a display screen with a visual effect simulating pages in a book.

10. The medium of claim 8, wherein the web page includes layout specifications, and wherein displaying the content that corresponds to the web page comprises:

rendering the article tree according to the user interface configuration independent of the layout specification of the web page.

11. The medium of claim 8, wherein the preloading comprises:

updating the article tree to append the different parts of the multi-part article from the preloaded web pages.

12. The medium of claim 11, wherein the article tree includes an element representing an anchor linking to one of the preloaded web pages and wherein the article tree is updated to remove the element.

13. The medium of claim 1, wherein the request includes a request to display the web page using a browser that has a plurality of modes including the reader mode and a regular mode, and wherein the method further comprises:

identifying the reader mode associated with the web page, wherein the other content of the web page is displayed by the browser if the web page is displayed in the regular mode.

14. The medium of claim 13, wherein the identification is based on heuristic rules.

15. The medium of claim 13, wherein the identification comprises:

presenting a user interface for soliciting user inputs to specify a particular one of the plurality of modes for the web page.

16. The medium of claim 15, further comprising:

identifying at least two possible modes of the plurality of modes for the web page, the user interface to allow the user inputs to select one of the possible modes.

17. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first part of the multi-part article is associated with a first hyperlink, and the second part of the multi-part article is associated with a second hyperlink that is different from the first hyperlink.

18. The medium of claim 1, wherein the web page includes a link to the second part of the multi-part article, and displaying the content that corresponds to the web page in the reader mode includes displaying the first part of the multi-part article without displaying the link to the second part of the multi-part article.

19. The medium of claim 1, wherein the reader mode is a user-selected mode.

20. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving a request to display a web page that comprises a first part of a multi-part article and other content that is not part of the multi-part article; and

in response to receiving the request to display the web page;

identifying a second part of the multi-part article that is not included in the web page based on information from the web page;

obtaining the second part of the multi-part article; and

displaying content that corresponds to the web page in a reader mode, wherein displaying the content that corresponds to the web page in the reader mode includes displaying the first part and second part of the multi-part article without displaying the other content from the web page.

21. An apparatus comprising:

a memory storing executable instructions;

a user interface device including a display screen; and

a processing system coupled to the user interface device and the memory to execute the executable instructions from the memory, the processing system being configured to;

receive a request to display a web page that comprises a first part of a multi-part article and other content that is not part of the multi-part article, and

in response to receiving the request to display the web page;

identify a second part of the multi-part article that is not included in the web page based on information from the web page,

obtain the second part of the multi-part article, and

display content that corresponds to the web page in a reader mode on the display screen, wherein displaying the content that corresponds to the web page in the reader mode includes displaying the first part and second part of the multi-part article without displaying the other content from the web page.