File acceptance display apparatus, file acceptance display method, and storage medium that records program for executing file acceptance display method

• US 6,229,535 B1
• Filed: 12/17/1998
• Issued: 05/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tokuda, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayerl, Raymond J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thomas T.
• Application Number:
  US09/216,605
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/217, 709/225, 707/10, 707/509, 707/513, 345/329, 345/339
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

A hypertext storage unit stores a hypertext list that shows the total sizes of the hypertexts that a hypertext acceptance unit is to be accept and the amount of data in the hypertexts that the hypertext acceptance unit has accepted. In a hyperlink information storage unit, a hyperlink information table of character strings that are now displayed is written by a hypertext analysis unit. A hypertext acceptance ratio calculation unit calculates the acceptance ratio of a hypertext. A hypertext display control unit displays the acceptance ratio, adding the acceptance ratio to a character string.

Claims

1. A file acceptance display apparatus that accepts a plurality of files transmitted and including display elements in which identifiers of link destination files are embedded, the file acceptance display apparatus that displays an accepted file on a display screen, accepts selection of a display element by a user, and has a link destination file corresponding to the selected display element displayed in place of the accepted file on the display screen,

the file acceptance display apparatus comprising:

acceptance means for accepting the plurality of files that are transmitted;

file storage means for storing the plurality of files that the acceptance means has accepted; and

control means for changing a display style of and/or a display related to a display element included in the accepted file displayed on the display screen according to a present acceptance condition of a link destination file corresponding to the display element.

2. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the acceptance means includes:

a size information acceptance unit for accepting a piece of size information that shows a size of a file for each of the plurality of files before the acceptance means accepts the plurality of files; and

a file size storage unit for storing a piece of size information for each of the plurality of files, and

the control means includes;

an identifier extraction unit for extracting each pair of a display element and a corresponding identifier of a link destination file that are included in an accepted file on the display screen;

a display element storage unit for storing each pair of a display element and a corresponding identifier;

an acceptance ratio calculation unit for calculating an acceptance ratio of a link destination file that is identified by an extracted identifier that has been stored in the display element storage unit from an amount of data in the link destination file and a piece of size information on the link destination file for each extracted display element, wherein the acceptance means accepts each link destination file part by part, and when the acceptance means accepts a part of a given link destination file, the file storage means adds the accepted part to previously accepted parts of the given link destination file and stores the added parts together; and

a display control unit for changing a display style of and/or a display related to an extracted display element on the display screen according to an acceptance ratio that has been calculated by the acceptance ratio calculation unit.

3. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the acceptance ratio calculation unit continues calculating an acceptance ratio until the acceptance ratio becomes 100%, and

the control means further includes an audio output control unit for having sound emitted, whenever notified by the acceptance ratio calculation unit that an acceptance ratio becomes 100%, the sound indicating that selection of an extracted display element is possible.

4. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit includes a percentage display control unit for displaying numbers representing an acceptance ratio next to a corresponding extracted display element on the display screen.

5. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the acceptance ratio calculation unit includes:

a timer; and

an interval acceptance ratio calculation unit for calculating an acceptance ratio every predetermined interval timed by the timer.

6. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 5 further comprising selection operation means for allowing, when notified by the acceptance ratio calculation unit that an acceptance ratio becomes 100%, the user to select a corresponding extracted display element.

7. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the plurality of files are described in HTML, and

the identifier extraction unit extracts each pair of a display element that is placed between tags <

A> and

<

/A> and

a corresponding identifier that is written inside the tag <

A>

.

8. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit includes:

a correspondence list storage unit for storing a list in which each one of groups into which acceptance ratios 0% to 100% are divided by a predetermined range corresponds to one of different colors, wherein the different colors are different hues, different chromatic colors, or colors that differ in brightness; and

a corresponding color display control unit for displaying an extracted display element in a color corresponding to an acceptance ratio of a corresponding link destination file according to the list.

9. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the acceptance ratio calculation unit continues calculating an acceptance ratio until the acceptance ratio becomes 100%, and the display control unit includes a reverse display control unit for displaying the display screen in reverse video for a moment when notified by the acceptance ratio calculation unit that an acceptance ratio becomes 100%.

10. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit includes a percentage display control unit for displaying numbers representing an acceptance ratio next to a corresponding extracted display element on the display screen.

11. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the acceptance ratio calculation unit includes:

a timer; and

an interval acceptance ratio calculation unit for calculating an acceptance ratio every predetermined interval timed by the timer.

12. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit includes:

a correspondence list storage unit for storing a list in which each one of groups into which acceptance ratios 0% to 100% are divided by a predetermined range corresponds to one of different colors, wherein the different colors are different hues, different chromatic colors, or colors that differ in brightness; and

a corresponding color display control unit for displaying an extracted display element in a color corresponding to an acceptance ratio of a corresponding link destination file according to the list.

13. The file acceptance display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of files are described in HTML, and

the identifier extraction unit extracts each pair of a display element that is placed between tags <

A> and

<

/A> and

a corresponding identifier that is written inside the tag <

A>

.

14. A file acceptance display method that accepts a plurality of files transmitted and including display elements in which identifiers of link destination files are embedded, the file acceptance display method that displays an accepted file on a display screen, accepts selection of a display element by a user, and has a link destination file corresponding to the selected display element displayed in place of the accepted file on the display screen,

the file acceptance display method comprising:

a file size acceptance storage step for accepting and storing sizes of the plurality of transmitted files;

an acceptance step for accepting the plurality of files that are transmitted;

a file storage step for storing the plurality of files that has been accepted at the acceptance step;

an acceptance condition detection step for detecting an acceptance condition of a link destination file using amount of data in the link destination file and a size of the link destination file for each display element in an accepted file; and

a display style change step for changing a display style of and/or a display related to a display element included in an accepted file displayed on the display screen according to a present acceptance condition of a link destination file corresponding to the display element.

15. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program used by a file acceptance display apparatus that accepts a plurality of files transmitted and including display elements in which identifiers of link destination files are embedded, the file acceptance display apparatus that displays an accepted file on a display screen, accepts selection of a display element by a user, and has a link destination file corresponding to the selected display element displayed in place of the accepted file on the display screen,

the program comprising:

a file size acceptance storage step for accepting and storing sizes of the plurality of transmitted files;

an acceptance step for accepting the plurality of files that are transmitted;

a file storage step for storing the plurality of files that has been accepted at the acceptance step;

an acceptance condition detection step for detecting an acceptance condition of a link destination file using amount of data in the link destination file and a size of the link destination file for each display element in an accepted file; and

a display style change step for changing a display style of and/or a display related to a display element included in an accepted file displayed on the display screen according to a present acceptance condition of a link destination file corresponding to the display element.