Menu bar providing method and information browsing screen configuration file creation program

• US 8,566,723 B2
• Filed: 11/09/2007
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ueda, Michiyoshi, Fujita, Takeshi, Kawachi, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D
• Application Number:
  US11/937,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20080126946A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,174 Days
• Field of Search: 715/733
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to enable displaying of a desired Web page and also displaying of a Web page including a menu bar without first displaying a predetermined Web page which a user does not want on a second display area of the Web browser, and also to execute a content based on the content execution request accepted from a content execution input unit of the menu bar. In order to solve this object, processing means extract a portion from which a self-domain 211 is removed from the Web page identifier received from an external terminal device as a second Web page identifier. Next, the processing means newly create an information browsing screen configuration file, store information browsing screen configuration information 212 in the information browsing screen configuration file, also store a first Web page identifier 213 and a first display area identifier 214 in a correlated manner, and also store the extracted second Web page identifier and a second display area identifier 215 in a correlated manner.

Claims

1. A menu bar providing method for providing a Web page including a menu bar to an external terminal device with a computer system of which a communication network is connected with a name resolving system and an information providing system,

wherein a storage of said name resolving system includes a name resolving file storing a self-domain name which is a domain name to which said information providing system belongs, and also stores an arbitrary subordinate domain name and the address of said information providing system in a correlated manner;

and wherein a processor of said name resolving system executes;

(1) a step for receiving the self-domain name included in a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), from an external terminal device, wherein the URL includes the self-domain name and a subordinate domain name,

(2) a step for extracting, from the URL, the self-domain name with reference to the name resolving file,

(3) a step for extracting, from the URL from which the extracted self-domain name is removed, a portion as the subordinate domain name,

(4) a step for extracting the address of said information providing system correlated with the extracted subordinate domain name with reference to the name resolving file, and

(5) a step for transmitting the extracted address of said information providing system to said external terminal device;

and wherein a storage of said information providing system stores a self-domain name which is the domain name of the domain to which said information providing system belongs, a first URL for identifying a Web page on which a menu bar including a content execution request input unit is displayed, information browsing window configuration information for dividing an information browsing window into a first display area and a second display area, a first display area identifier for identifying said first display area, and a second display area identifier for identifying said second display area;

and wherein a processor of said information providing system executes;

(6) a step for receiving the URL from said external terminal device,

(7) a step for extracting the self-domain name, from the URL, from the storage of said information providing system,

(8) a step for extracting, from said received URL from which the extracted self-domain name is removed, a portion as a second URL,

(9) a step for extracting the first URL, the information browsing window configuration information, the first display area identifier, and the second display area identifier from the storage of said information providing system,

(10) a step for creating an information browsing window configuration file newly, storing in the information browsing window configuration file said extracted information browsing window configuration information, also storing said extracted first URL and said extracted first display area identifier in a correlated manner, and also storing said extracted second URL and said extracted second display area identifier in a correlated manner, and

(11) a step for transmitting the created information browsing window configuration file to said external terminal device, wherein the processor of said information providing system is remote from the external terminal device.

2. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an information browsing window configuration file creation program employed for an information providing system including a storage for storing information, a communication device for communicating with an external terminal device, and a processor for controlling the operation of the storage, the communication device, and the processor,

wherein said storage stores a self-domain name which is the domain name of the domain to which said information providing system belongs, a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for identifying a Web page on which a menu bar including a content execution request input unit is displayed, information browsing window configuration information for dividing an information browsing window into a first display area and a second display area, a first display area identifier for identifying said first display area, and a second display area identifier for identifying said second display area;

and wherein said program causes said processor to execute;

(1) a step for extracting a self-domain name, from a URL, received from the external terminal device, from said storage, wherein the URL includes the self-domain name and a subordinate domain name,

(2) a step for extracting, from the URL from which the extracted self-domain name is removed, a portion as a second URL,

(3) a step for extracting the first URL, the information browsing window configuration information, the first display area identifier, and the second display area identifier from said storage,

(4) a step for creating an information browsing window configuration file newly, storing in the information browsing window configuration file said extracted information browsing window configuration information, also storing said extracted first URL and said extracted first display area identifier in a correlated manner, and also storing said extracted second URL and said extracted second display area identifier in a correlated manner, wherein said processor is remote from the external terminal device.