Communication apparatus, system and web page processing method

• US 7,770,105 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2007
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Terashima, Yoshiki, Saito, Takeshi, Tamada, Yuzo, Teramoto, Keiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith; Benjamin J
• Application Number:
  US11/790,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20070198909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,198 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/240, 715/249
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

An apparatus and method for processing a Web page is disclosed. A Web processing unit receives a first Web page from a Web server and displays the first Web page on a screen. The Web processing unit acquires a communication program identified by the first Web page. An external state is monitored and thereby operation information responsive to the external state is generated. The Web processing unit executes the communication program to change the first Web page displayed on the screen to a second Web page according to the operation information.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus for acquiring and displaying Web pages, comprising:

a communication applet storing unit configured to store a communication applet, the communication applet being referenced, but not stored, on a remote Web server;

a monitoring unit configured to monitor an external state and to generate a first operation information responsive to the external state; and

a Web browser configured to receive a first Web page from the remote Web server and display the first Web page on a screen, and configured to download the communication applet from the communication applet storing unit and execute the communication applet when the first Web page is displayed,

wherein;

the first Web page includes an instruction for causing the Web browser to download the communication applet from the communication applet storing unit and an argument which is passed to the communication applet and indicates that a second Web page for display corresponds to a second operation information;

the communication applet is restricted from communicating with devices external to the communication apparatus;

the communication applet can only control the Web browser to replace the first Web page with the second Web pane if the first operation information received from the monitoring unit corresponds to the second operation information indicated in the first Web page.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation information includes a character string which corresponds to a location of the second Web page.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a voice recognition unit connected to the monitoring unit and configured to recognize a voice and send a voice recognition result of the recognized voice as the external state to the monitoring unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the Web browser executes the communication applet in a first frame and displays at least one of the first Web page and the second Web page in a second frame, and wherein the communication applet is resident in the first frame during a page transition between the first Web page and the second Web page.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first frame is invisible on the screen.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring unit and the communication protocol communicate with each other in accordance with a HTTP protocol via a HTTP port.