Methods and apparatus for enabling use of web content on various types of devices

• US 7,877,677 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2007
• Issued: 01/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InfoGin Ltd.
• Original Assignee: InfoGin Ltd.
• Inventors: Uziel, Asher, Wyler, Eran Shmuel, Ilani, Gil, Elrom, Ron, Shefi, Naaman
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dasgupta; Soumya
• Application Number:
  US11/713,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20090044098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,426 Days
• Field of Search: 715/209, 715/238, 715/243
• 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: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

A system and method for configuring web content for display on mobile communicators including receiving an operator-selected web page, selection, by an operator, of at least one cell-based element of the web page, arrangement, by an operator, of the at least one cell-based element at a desired position in a page template; and creating at least one mobile communicator adapted page by automatically placing at least one cell-based element, indicated by the template, of at least another web page, having a page structure similar to the operator-selected web page, at a desired position indicated by the template.

Claims

1. A method for configuring web content for display to users on mobile communicators, the method comprising:

receiving an operator-selected web page;

selecting, by said operator, at least one cell-based element from said operator-selected web page;

arranging, by said operator, said selected at least one cell-based element at a desired position in a page template without changing HTML code of said operator-selected web page;

automatically placing at least one other cell-based element from another web page in the page template, wherein said another web page has at least certain structural similarities to said operator-selected web page; and

automatically creating at least one mobile communicator adapted web page using the cell-based elements and the page template, wherein said creating employs a matching algorithm.

2. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said operator initially views web sites on the Internet and thereafter arranges and prioritizes the web content thereof for viewing on mobile communicators.

3. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying on a computer of said operator;

said operator-selected web page;

a representation of a Document Object Model (DOM) for the operator-selected web page;

a prioritization and arrangement table for cell-based elements of the operator-selected web page, and; and

hypertext markup language (HTML) code corresponding to said selected at least one cell-based element.

4. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said another web page is a future web page.

5. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said another web page is a different web page.

6. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said selecting, arranging and creating steps take place without changing the HTML code of said operator-selected web page.

7. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said creating includes adding additional content, within selected elements, which was not present in said operator-selected web page.

8. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said creating includes removal of web content from selected elements when creating said template.

9. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said operator initially selects a scope of a template to be created by using regular expressions.

10. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein the operator may indicate to a server, in said creating step, that an attribute for one of the cell-based elements in the page template is to be ignored, if the attribute of the cell-based element changes based on a time at which the at least one mobile communicator adapted web page is viewed.

11. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein information saved for each of the cell-based elements in said page template includes at least one of a priority of said cell-based element, its X and Y positions within said operator-selected web page, the area of said operator-selected web page taken up by said cell-based element, the number of images included in said cell-based element, the number of forms included in said cell-based element, the percentage of the area of said cell-based element which is covered by text and the percentage of the area of said cell-based element which is covered by links.

12. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 11, wherein said saved information includes at least one of the following:

for each of the cell-based elements to which said operator added content or from which said operator removed content, an indication that the content was added or removed; and

for each of the cell-based elements which include a basic structure that is repeated several times, an indication the basic structure is repeated several times.

13. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1, wherein said operator is enabled to indicate whether one or more of the cell-based elements in said page template are mandatory elements, such that when employing said page template to generate a mobile communicator adapted web page for display on a mobile communicator display screen, if one of the cell-based elements in the page template is not matched by a cell-based element in the web page being adapted, the page template is not used.

14. A system for configuring web content for display to users on mobile communicators, the system comprising a computer programmed to provide the following functionalities:

receiving an operator-selected web page;

selecting, by said operator, at least one cell-based element from said operator-selected web page;

arranging, by said operator, said selected at least one cell-based element at a desired position in a page template without changing HTML code of said operator-selected web page;

automatically placing at least one other cell-based element from another web page in the page template, wherein said another web page has at least certain structural similarities to said operator-selected web page; and

automatically creating at least one mobile communicator adapted web page using the cell-based elements and the page template, wherein said creating employs a matching algorithm.

15. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein said operator initially views web sites on the Internet and thereafter arranges and prioritizes the web content thereof for viewing on mobile communicators.

16. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, further comprising:

displaying on a computer of said operator;

said operator-selected web page;

a representation of a Document Object Model (DOM) for the operator-selected web page;

a prioritization and arrangement table for cell-based elements of the operator-selected web page, and; and

hypertext markup language (HTML) code corresponding to said selected at least one cell-based element.

17. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein said another web page is a future web page.

18. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein said another web page is a different web page.

19. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein said selecting, arranging and creating functionalities operate without changing the HTML code of said operator-selected web page.

20. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein said creating functionality includes adding additional content, within selected elements, which was not present in said operator-selected web page.

21. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein said creating functionality includes removal of web content from selected elements when creating said template.

22. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 14, wherein information saved for each of the cell-based elements in said page template includes at least one of a priority of said cell-based element, its X and Y positions within said operator-selected web page, the area of said operator-selected web page taken up by said cell-based element, the number of images included in said cell-based element, the number of forms included in said cell-based element, the percentage of the area of said cell-based element which is covered by text and the percentage of the area of said cell-based element which is covered by links.

23. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 22, wherein said saved information includes at least one of the following:

for each of the cell-based elements to which said operator added content or from which said operator removed content, an indication that the content was added or removed; and

for each of the cell-based elements which include a basic structure that is repeated several times, an indication the basic structure is repeated several times.