Linearization of framesets for audibly rendering frames

• US 6,711,714 B1
• Filed: 02/02/2000
• Issued: 03/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Goose, Stuart, Wynblatt, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Sanjiv
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hutton, Doug
• Application Number:
  US09/497,059
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• Field of Search: 715/500.1, 345/727, 379/88.13, 379/88.17, 704/271
• US Class Current: 715/209
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems

Abstract

A method for linearizing framesets for audibly rendering structured document frames, in accordance with the present invention, includes accessing a document including a frameset. Frames of the frameset are ranked in accordance with positional locations of each frame in the frameset such that each frame is uniquely ordered in the frameset. A linearized document is generated for the frameset for rendering by an audio browser.

Claims

1. A method for linearizing framesets for audibly rendering structured document frames, comprising the steps of:

accessing a document including a frameset;

ranking frames of the frameset in accordance with positional locations of each frame in the frameset such that each frame is uniquely ordered in the frameset;

ranking the frames based on their relative position from a first location to obtain a first index;

ranking the frames based on their relative position from a second location to obtain a second index;

summing the first and second indices to achieve a final ranking; and

generating a linearized document for the frameset for rendering by an audio browser.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the document includes a structured document.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the document includes a HTML document.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of accessing a document including at least one frameset includes the step of downloading the document from the Internet.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of ordering frames having equal indices as a result of the step of summing the first and second indices by providing resolution criteria.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the audio browser includes one of a telephone, a computer and a personal digital assistant.

7. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for linearizing framesets for audibly rendering structured document frames, the method steps comprising:

accessing a document including at least one frameset;

ranking frames of the frameset in accordance with positional locations of each frame in the frameset such that each frame is uniquely ordered in the frameset;

ranking the frames based on their relative Position from a first location to obtain a first index;

ranking the frames based on their relative position from a second location to obtain a second index;

summing the first and second indices to achieve a final ranking; and

generating a linearized document for the frameset for rendering by an audio browser.

8. The program storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein the document includes a structured document.

9. The program storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein the document includes a HTML document.

10. The program storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein the step of accessing a document including at least one frameset includes the step of downloading the document from the Internet.

11. The program storage device as recited in claim 7, further comprising the step of ordering frames having equal indices as a result of the step of summing the first and second indices by providing resolution criteria.

12. The program storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein the audio browser includes one of a telephone, a computer and a personal digital assistant.

13. A method for linearizing framesets for audibly rendering structured document frames, comprising the steps of:

downloading a structured document including a frameset;

ranking frames of the frameset in accordance with positional locations of each frame in the frameset;

ranking the frames based on their relative position from a first location to obtain a first index;

ranking the frames based on their relative position from a second location to obtain a second index;

summing the first and second indices to achieve a final ranking;

sorting the frames of the frame set by ordering the frames based on their relative positions in the frameset such that each frame is uniquely ordered in the frameset; and

generating a linearized document for the ordered frameset for rendering by an audio browser.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the structured document includes a HTML document.

15. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the structured document is downloaded from the Internet.

16. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising the step of ordering frames having equal indices as a result of the step of summing the first and second indices by providing resolution criteria.

17. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the audio browser includes one of a telephone, a computer and a personal digital assistant.