Segmenting electronic documents for use on a device of limited capability
First Claim
1. A method comprisingreceiving, from an origin server, a machine readable file containing a document that is to be served to a client for display on a client device, the file being expressed in a language that does not organize segments of the document in a hierarchy,converting the file to a language that organizes segments of the document in a hierarchy,traversing the hierarchy and assembling subdocuments from the segments, at least some of the subdocuments being assembled from more than one of the segments, the assembling conforming to an algorithm that tends to (a) balance the respective sizes of the subdocuments, (b) favor assembling the subdocuments from segments that have common parents in the hierarchy, and (c) assemble the subdocuments from segments for which replications of nodes in the hierarchy is not required,at least one of the subdocuments being expressed in a format that permits it to be served separately to the client, at least one of the subdocuments containing information that enables it to be linked to another one of the subdocuments, andserving the subdocuments to the client individually as requested by the client based on the contained information that enables it to be linked to another of the subdocuments.
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Abstract
A method includes receiving a machine readable file containing a document that is to be served to a client for display on a client device, the organization of each of the documents in the file being expressed as a hierarchy of information, and deriving subdocuments from the hierarchy of the information, each of the subdocuments being expressed in a format that permits it to be served separately to the client using a hypertext transmission protocol, at least one of the subdocuments containing information that enables it to be linked to another one of the subdocuments.
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11 Claims
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1. A method comprising
receiving, from an origin server, a machine readable file containing a document that is to be served to a client for display on a client device, the file being expressed in a language that does not organize segments of the document in a hierarchy, converting the file to a language that organizes segments of the document in a hierarchy, traversing the hierarchy and assembling subdocuments from the segments, at least some of the subdocuments being assembled from more than one of the segments, the assembling conforming to an algorithm that tends to (a) balance the respective sizes of the subdocuments, (b) favor assembling the subdocuments from segments that have common parents in the hierarchy, and (c) assemble the subdocuments from segments for which replications of nodes in the hierarchy is not required, at least one of the subdocuments being expressed in a format that permits it to be served separately to the client, at least one of the subdocuments containing information that enables it to be linked to another one of the subdocuments, and serving the subdocuments to the client individually as requested by the client based on the contained information that enables it to be linked to another of the subdocuments.
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8. Apparatus comprising:
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a processor and memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform; receiving, from an origin server, a machine readable file containing a document that is to be served to a client for display on a client device, the file being expressed in a language that does not organize segments of the document in a hierarchy, converting the file to a language that organizes segments of the document in a hierarchy, traversing the hierarchy and assembling subdocuments from the segments, at least some of the subdocuments being assembled from more than one of the segments, the assembling conforming to an algorithm that tends to (a) balance the respective sizes of the subdocuments, (b) favor assembling the subdocuments from segments that have common parents in the hierarchy, and (c) assemble the subdocuments from segments for which replications of nodes in the hierarchy is not required, at least one of the subdocuments being expressed in a format that permits it to be served separately to the client, at least one of the subdocuments containing information that enables it to be linked to another one of the subdocuments, and serving the subdocuments to the client individually as requested by the client based on the contained information that enables it to be linked to another of the subdocuments. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A machine-readable program stored on a machine-readable medium and capable of configuring a machine to:
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receive, from an origin server, a machine readable file containing a document that is to be served to a client for display on a client device, the file being expressed in a language that does not organize segments of the document in a hierarchy, convert the file to a language that organizes segments of the document in a hierarchy, traverse the hierarchy and assemble subdocuments from the segments, at least some of the subdocuments being assembled from more than one of the segments, the assembling conforming to an algorithm that tends to (a) balance the respective sizes of the subdocuments, (b) favor assembling the subdocuments from segments that have common parents in the hierarchy, and (c) assemble the subdocuments from segments for which replications of nodes in the hierarchy is not required, at least one of the subdocuments being expressed in a format that permits it to be served separately to the client, at least one of the subdocuments containing information that enables it to be linked to another one of the subdocuments, and serve the subdocuments to the client individually as requested by the client based on the contained information that enables it to be linked to another of the subdocuments.
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Specification