Automatically adjusting a webpage

• US 8,489,985 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2011
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bao, Shenghua, Chen, Jian, Su, Zhong, Tian, Chunhua, Wang, Dong
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US13/170,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20120005573A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 715/243, 715/244, 715/245, 715/246, 715/247, 715/251
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A solution is provided for automatically adjusting a webpage. According to the method of the present invention it can be automatically learned what the user'"'"'s historical browsing behaviors are and thereby predict which block in the webpage would interest the user more so that it would be the one to be browsed and then adjust display of the block accordingly. Thus, with the present invention, limited screen resources can be utilized to more efficiently display the content that would interest a user when the user browses a webpage. A system for automatically adjusting a webpage and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying non-transitory computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of a method for automatically adjusting a webpage, are also provided.

Claims

1. A method for automatically adjusting a webpage, comprising:

obtaining a browsed webpage;

analyzing the browsed webpage to identify an actual focal block of the browsed webpage;

recording a focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage;

obtaining a target webpage;

predicting a potential focal block of the target webpage based on the focal feature by identifying, as the potential focal block, a block in the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to at least one feature of the actual focal block; and

adjusting display of the target webpage.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

partitioning the browsed webpage into a plurality of blocks; and

partitioning the target webpage into a plurality of blocks.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the browsed webpage to identify an actual focal block of the browsed webpage comprises:

scoring a block in the browsed webpage based on at least one of the following items;

a block location score, a block size score, a mouse state score, and a browsing record score.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a total focal score of a block is calculated through the following formula:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage comprises a location of the actual focal block in the browsed webpage and a size of the actual focal block, and

wherein predicting a potential focal block of the target webpage based on the focal feature comprises identifying, as the potential focal block, a block in the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to the location and size of the actual focal block in the browsed webpage.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage comprises a topic of the actual focal block, and

wherein predicting a potential focal block of the target webpage based on the focal feature comprises identifying, as the potential focal block, a block in the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to the topic of the actual focal block.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the target webpage is a requested webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a threshold with respect to the browsed webpage, and the method further comprises:

determining whether or not the requested webpage has a similarity degree greater than a threshold with respect to the browsed webpage from at least one of the following items;

a webpage layout, a webpage topic, a webpage type, and a webpage URL.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting display of the target, webpage comprises magnifying content of the potential focal block.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

predicting non-potential focal blocks of the target webpage, and

wherein adjusting display of the target webpage comprises minifying content of the potential non-focal blocks of the target webpage.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting display of the target webpage comprises re-organizing layout of the target webpage.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the browsed webpage and the target webpage are requested by a same user.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the browsed webpage and the target webpage are requested by different users.

13. A system for automatically adjusting a webpage, comprising:

browsed webpage obtaining means configured to obtain a browsed webpage;

analyzing means configured to analyze the browsed webpage to identify an actual focal block of the browsed webpage;

recording means configured to record a focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage;

target webpage obtaining means configured to obtain a target webpage;

predicting means configured to predict a potential focal block of the target webpage based on the focal feature by identifying, as the potential focal block, a block in the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to at least one feature of the actual focal block; and

adjusting means configured to adjust display of the target webpage.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

browsed webpage partitioning means configured to partition the browsed webpage into a plurality of blocks; and

target webpage partitioning means configured to partition the target webpage into a plurality of blocks.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the analyzing means is further configured to score a block in the browsed webpage based on at least one of the following items:

a block location score, a block size score, a mouse state score, and a browsing record score.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage comprises a location of the actual focal block in the browsed webpage and a size of the actual focal block, and

wherein the predicting means is further configured to identify as the potential focal block a block in the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to the location and size of the actual focal block in the browsed webpage.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage comprises a topic of the actual focal block, and

wherein the predicting means is further configured to identify as the potential focal block a block of the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to the topic of the actual focal block.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the target webpage is a requested webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a threshold with respect to the browsed webpage, and the system further comprises:

determining means configured to determine whether or not the requested webpage has a similarity degree greater than a threshold with respect to the browsed webpage from at least one of the following items;

a webpage layout, a webpage topic, a webpage type, and a webpage URL.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the adjusting means is further configured to magnify content of the potential focal block of the target webpage.

20. A computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying non-transitory computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of a method for automatically adjusting a webpage, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining a browsed webpage;

analyzing the browsed webpage to identify an actual focal block of the browsed webpage;

recording a focal feature of the actual focal block of the browsed webpage;

obtaining a target webpage;

predicting a potential focal block of the target webpage based on the focal feature by identifying, as the potential focal block, a block in the target webpage that has a similarity degree greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to at least one feature of the actual focal block; and

adjusting display of the target webpage.