Method and system for preparing and displaying page structures for web sites

• US 7,296,222 B1
• Filed: 04/11/2000
• Issued: 11/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sakairi, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUYNH, THU V
• Application Number:
  US09/546,719
• Time in Patent Office: 2,772 Days
• Field of Search: 709/218, 715/513, 715/713, 715853-854, 345/713, 345/853, 345/854
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions

Abstract

In order to browse a web site by using a browser program running on a computer, a web browser obtains, from a server holding information concerning web sites, the page structure and the attributes for the web pages at the site, and displays them in correlation with each other. Further, the web browser can enable the altering by a user of the display of the page structure and the page attributes, so that in response to user manipulations, the page structure and page attribute display can be dynamically changed. In order to facilitate such an alteration by a user, a GUI (Graphical User Interface) command is provided for changing the page structure and page attribute display.

Claims

1. A method for browsing a web site using a browser program running on a computer, comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving, from a server for a web site, a plurality of page structures and a plurality of page attributes for said web site, including information concerning said web site;

(b) displaying said plurality of page structures and said plurality of page attributes on a screen for a user;

(c) receiving, from the user, an input selecting either ones of said plurality of page structures or ones of said plurality of page attributes; and

(d) in response to receiving said input from the user, dynamically changing the display of at least one of said plurality of page structures if ones of said plurality of page attributes were selected and dynamically changing the display of at least one of said plurality of page attributes if ones of said plurality of page structures were chosen, wherein the display that is dynamically changed reflects a correlation between said page structures and said page attributes;

wherein said page attributes are keywords included in said web pages at said web site, a number of times said keywords appear, sizes of files, a number of files and dates files are updated.

2. A web site browsing system, which includes a server holding information for a web site and a browser connected to said server for browsing said a web site, comprising:

(a) means for requesting, from said server, a plurality of web structures at said web sites and a plurality of attributes of said web pages, and for receiving said plurality of page structures and said plurality of page attributes; and

(b) means for displaying said plurality of page structures and said page attributes;

(c) means for receiving, from the user, an input selecting either ones of said plurality of page structures or ones of said plurality of page attributes; and

(d) means for dynamically changing, in response to receiving said input from the user, the display of at least one of said plurality of page structures if ones of said plurality of page attributes were selected and dynamically changing the display of at least one of said plurality of page attributes if ones of said plurality of page structures were chosen, wherein the display that is dynamically changed reflects a correlation between said page structures and said page attributes;

wherein said page attributes are keywords included in said web pages at said web site, a number of times said keywords appear, sizes of files, a number of files and dates files are updated.

3. The web site browsing system according to claim 2, wherein said server includes means for using contents held by said server or by another web server to prepare said web page structures and said page attributes for said web pages at said web site.

4. The web site browsing system according to claim 2, wherein said server includes means for upon receiving a request from said browser, transmitting to said browser a program that includes a command processor, a page attribute processor and a page structure processor, all of which are required to display said page structures and said page attributes in correlation with each other.

5. The web site browsing system according to claim 4, wherein said command processor includes means for, in accordance with a browser change manipulation performed by a user, displaying a command for changing a display of said page structures and said page attributes, as well as said page structures and said page attributes.

6. The web site browsing system according to claim 4, wherein said program includes means for displaying, together with said page structures and said page attributes, a list of command areas for changing the displays of said page structures and said page attributes.

7. A web site browsing computer, which includes a communication device for communicating with another computer;

and a display device for browsing and displaying a web site by using a web site browser program, said web site browsing computer comprising;

(a) means for receiving, via said communication device, page structures at said web site and page attributes included in web pages from a computer holding information for said web site; and

(b) means for using said web site browser program to display said page structures and said page attributes;

(c) means for receiving, from the user, an input selecting either ones of said plurality of page structures or ones of said plurality of page attributes; and

(d) means for dynamically changing, in response to receiving said input from the user, the display of at least one of said plurality of page structures if ones of said plurality of page attributes were selected and dynamically changing the display of at least one of said plurality of page attributes if ones of said plurality of page structures were chosen, wherein the display that is dynamically changed reflects a correlation between said page structures and said page attributes;

wherein said page attributes are keywords included in said web pages at said web site, a number of times said keywords appear, sizes of files, a number of files and dates files are updated.