EMPHASIZING A PORTION OF THE VISIBLE CONTENT ELEMENTS OF A MARKUP LANGUAGE DOCUMENT

• US 20150205772A1
• Filed: 01/22/2015
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Freedom Scientific Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Al Squared
• Inventors: Leventhal, Aaron M.
• Granted Patent: US 10,417,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• 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]

Abstract

Some described embodiments relate to techniques for editing markup elements of a markup language document to emphasize a portion of the visible content elements of the markup language document. The techniques may be implemented in any suitable manner, including via scripting language code (e.g., JavaScript) that is incorporated into the markup language document but is not preconfigured with information regarding the markup language document or any other markup language document. The scripting language code may perform the editing automatically, and based on an automatic analysis of markup elements of the markup language document. Some embodiments may include determining the portion of the markup language document to be emphasized by identifying content of interest to a user, including by determining a set of related content through analyzing a structure of markup elements of the markup language document and/or layout of visible content elements of the markup language document.

Claims

1. A method of increasing a display size of a portion of at least one markup language document at a time that visible content elements of the at least one markup language document are displayed with a first display size, the method comprising:

with a viewing application processing at least one markup language document, executing instructions incorporated with the at least one markup language document to carry out acts of;

identifying a first visible content element of interest to a user;

determining one or more other visible content elements, of the at least one markup language document, with which the first visible content element is related and which are to be magnified together with the first visible content element; and

editing markup elements of the at least one markup language document to increase the display size of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements while maintaining a display of other visible content elements of the at least one markup language document at the first display size.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein editing the markup elements to increase the display size of the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements comprises:

determining a first set of markup elements of the at least one markup language document defining the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements;

editing the at least one markup language document to insert a duplicated set of the first set of markup elements describing a duplicated set of the first visible content elements and the one or more visible content elements;

editing the at least one markup language document to specify that the duplicated set of visible content elements are to be displayed superimposed on original visible content elements of the at least one markup language document and with a background image.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

editing the markup elements to insert at least one new markup element specifying a scale transform that is to be applied to the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements to increase the display size.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein editing the at least one markup language document to insert the duplicated set of markup elements describing the duplicated set of visible content elements comprises:

inserting the duplicated set of markup elements; and

editing the duplicated set of markup elements to change at least one font property of text included in the duplicated set of visible content elements.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein editing the markup elements to increase the display size of the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements comprises:

editing the markup elements relating to the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements to apply a scale transform to the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements to increase the size of the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements and, in a case that the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements are displayed by default with fixed dimensions, to configure the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements to expand beyond the fixed dimensions; and

editing other markup elements of the at least one markup language document to preserve a default position of other visible content elements of the at least one markup language document while the first visible content element and the one or more other visible content elements are displayed with an increased display size.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein editing the other markup elements to preserve the default position of other visible content elements comprises:

inserting at least one markup element adjusting a spacing of visible content elements positioned in an area of a default display position of the first visible content element and/or the one or more other visible content elements, wherein the at least one markup element adjusts the spacing of the visible content element in the area of the default display position to maintain a default layout of the visible content elements positioned in the area.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one markup element adjusts the spacing using CSS “

;

before” and

/or “

;

after”

elements.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein editing the markup elements of the at least one markup language document to increase the display size of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements comprises editing the markup elements to animate an increase in display size of the first visible content element.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a position at which to display the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements with the increased size based on a default display position of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements,

wherein editing the markup elements of the at least one markup language document comprises editing the markup elements to display the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements with the increased size at the calculated position.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein editing the markup elements of the at least one markup language document to increase the display size of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements comprises editing the markup elements to display the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements within a border of a new graphic element inserted into the at least one markup language document;

and

wherein the method further comprises calculating dimensions of the new graphic element based at least in part on a layout of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising, with the viewing application:

prior to the editing, storing an unedited version of markup elements of the at least one markup language document relating to the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements; and

following the editing, in response to user input, restoring the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements to a display size prior to the editing based on the unedited version of the markup elements.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

editing the markup elements of the at least one markup language document to insert at least one new visible content element that is superimposed over original content elements of the at least one markup language document and deemphasizes the original content elements, and is not displayed over the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements that are displayed with increased size.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein editing the markup elements to insert at least one new visible content element comprises:

specifying, using markup language, a vector graphic that has dimensions extending over an entirety of the markup language document and that has a shape including a hole having a shape, position, and dimensions corresponding to a display area of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements with increased size, and that has a semi-transparent color; and

editing the at last one markup language document to insert the vector graphic as a new topmost element of the at least one markup language document.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions incorporated with the at least one markup language document define the identifying, the determining, and the editing to be independent of the at least one markup language document and applicable to other markup language documents.

15. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon at least one markup language document having incorporated therein instructions that, when executed by a viewing application executing on the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out a method of increasing a display size of a portion of at least one markup language document at a time that visible content elements of the at least one markup language document are displayed with a first display size, the method comprising;

identifying a first visible content element of interest to a user;

determining one or more other visible content elements, of the at least one markup language document, with which the first visible content element is related and which are to be magnified together with the first visible content element; and

editing markup elements of the at least one markup language document to increase the display size of the first visible content element and the one or more visible content elements while maintaining a display of other visible content elements of the at least one markup language document at the first display size.

16. At least one computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon at least one markup language document having incorporated therein executable instructions, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out a method, the method comprising:

identifying, based on a first user input, a set of one or more visible content elements of the at least one markup language document; and

in response to a second user input,

determining a first set of markup elements of the at least one markup language document defining the one or more visible content elements of the set;

editing the at least one markup language document to insert a duplicated set of the first set of markup elements describing a duplicated set of the one or more visible content elements; and

editing the at least one markup language document to indicate that the duplicated set of the one or more visible content elements are to be displayed superimposed on the one or more visible content elements and with an increased size relative to a display size of the set of one or more visible content elements.

17. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein editing the at least one markup language document to insert the duplicated set comprises editing the at least one markup language document to insert at least one new graphical element having a border and to indicate that the duplicated set is to be displayed positioned on top of the at least one new graphical element and within the border.

18. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein:

the method further comprises, in response to the second user input, calculating a size and position at which to display the at least one new graphical element based at least in part on a size and position of the set of one or more visible content elements; and

editing the at least one markup language document to insert the at least one new graphical element comprises editing the at least one markup language document to indicate that the at least one new graphical element is to be displayed with the calculated size and position.

19. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein editing the at least one markup language document to insert the duplicated set of the first set of markup elements comprises, in a case that the duplicated set of the one or more visible content elements comprises a text content element, editing the duplicated set of the first set of markup elements to change one or more font properties of the text content element from original font properties of text in the set of one or more visible content elements.

20. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein editing the at least one markup language document to insert the duplicated set of the first set of markup elements comprises editing the duplicated set of the first set of markup elements to change one or more colors of the duplicated set from original colors of the set of one or more visible content elements.

21. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises, in response to the second user input:

editing the at least one markup language document to insert at least one new visible content element that is superimposed over original content elements of the at least one markup language document and deemphasizes the original content elements, and is not displayed over the duplicated set of one or more visible content elements.