Portable terminal device

• US 7,430,708 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2004
• Issued: 09/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tomimori, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh; Rachna
• Assistant Examiner(s): Distefano; Gregory A
• Application Number:
  US10/791,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20040177131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,671 Days
• Field of Search: 707/201, 713/178, 715/733, 715/205, 715/206, 715/207, 715/208
• US Class Current: 715/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting

Abstract

A portable terminal device is provided which is capable of displaying URLs in a manner so as to be fitter for a use state when a bookmark function provided by browser being installed in the portable terminal device is used. A situation information acquiring unit acquires position information about longitude and latitude from a position information acquiring unit. The situation information acquiring unit acquires information about time from a time information acquiring unit and information about a day of a week from the time information acquiring unit. A bookmark managing unit acquires the situation information and stores the situation information together with a URL passed from a browser processing unit and its title in a bookmark storing unit.

Claims

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

a communication control unit being connected to an internet communication network to feed and receive information;

a browser processing unit to acquire a file being stored in a server over said internet communication network connected through said communication control unit;

a sort key storing unit in which sort keys are stored;

a bookmark storing unit in which a bookmark recording a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a server over said internet communication network is stored;

a situation information acquiring unit to acquire situation information showing a state occurring when said browser processing unit has obtained a file through said internet communication network;

a bookmark managing unit to record a URL of a server storing a file that said browser processing unit has obtained through said internet communication network in a bookmark being stored in said bookmark storing unit in such a manner that situation information that said situation information acquiring unit has acquired is annexed to said URL;

a bookmark sorting unit to sort URLs being recorded in a bookmark stored in said bookmark storing unit depending on a use situation; and

a displaying unit to display URLs sorted by said bookmark sorting unit,

wherein the bookmark sorting unit converts into numbers a degree of approximation between the situation information annexed to each of the URLs and a situation information at a present point of time and sorts the URLs in order of having approximation of the situation information with smallest to highest approximation, and

wherein if the bookmark sorting unit acquiring at least one sort key comprises acquiring at least two sort keys, a sum of the approximation corresponding to each of the sort key is used as an approximation of the situation information.