Method for accessing a parent page while browsing web pages

• US 8,082,488 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2007
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Yanming
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US12/305,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20100017729A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,737 Days
• Field of Search: 715/205, 715/206, 715/208, 715/234
• US Class Current: 715/208
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

According to the present invention, a method for accessing a parent page while browsing web pages is provided, which comprises steps of: receiving by a server a request from a user to extract a web page; when extracting the web page, updating by the server an “UP” list according to a parent-children-relation markup pre-stored in a page link to the web page, and entering into the web page linked by the page link; when requesting by the user the parent page, obtaining by the server the current “UP” list for the user to extract the parent page.

Claims

1. A method for accessing a parent page while browsing web pages, comprising steps of:

receiving by a server a request from a user to extract a web page;

when extracting the web page, updating by the server an “

UP”

list according to a parent-children-relation markup pre-stored in a page link to the web page, and entering into the web page linked by the page link; and

when requesting by the user the parent page, obtaining by the server the current “

UP”

list for the user to extract the parent page.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of updating by the server the “

UP”

list according to a parent-children-relation markup pre-stored in a page link to the web page includes;

when the parent-children-relation markup represents that a current page and a target page are respectively the parent page and the children page, adding the current page which is the parent page into the “

UP”

list;

when the parent-children-relation markup represents that a current page and a target page are brother pages, maintaining the current “

UP”

list as it is; and

when the parent-children-relation markup represents that a current page and a target page are respectively the children page and the parent page, directing to the last item in the current “

UP”

list which is to be the target page, and deleting the target page which is the parent page from the current “

UP”

list.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of obtaining by the server the current “

UP”

list for the user to extract the parent page includes;

obtaining by the server the current “

UP”

list for the user, and extracting the parent page according to the last item in the current “

UP”

list which is to be the target page.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of requesting by the user the parent page includes:

requesting by the user the parent page through pressing an “

UP”

button in the current page.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the UP list is used to store a list of parent pages for a current browsing path of the user.