Web based communication of information with reconfigurable format

• US 8,739,029 B1
• Filed: 08/14/2007
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harris Technology LLC
• Original Assignee: Harris Technology LLC
• Inventors: Harris, Scott C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vaughn, Gregory J
• Application Number:
  US11/838,826
• Time in Patent Office: 2,478 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/203, 715/234, 715/243, 715/246, 715/249, 715/253
• US Class Current: 715/253
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0442 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply asymmetric encryption, i.e. different keys for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for public-key encryption H04L9/30

Abstract

DY-Internet/SCHA system of using an interactive device such as an e-mail pager to obtain information from a publicly available source, such as the Internet. The e-mail pager may send information in its native format to a service that acts as an intermediary. That service takes the information and uses it to assemble a request to the actual information source, such as a Web page being accessed. If a web page is being accessed, the request is in HTML, and may include personal logon information. The response from the web page is also in HTML, and this information is received by the service, and salient information is taken from the HTML file. The information is reformatted, e.g. according to a template, into the e-mail pager'"'"'s native format, and sent to the pager. Another embodiment describes opening multiple pages, and assembling their content into a single web page.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

first receiving first information indicative of a first webpage over an information receiving channel into a computer;

automatically analyzing said first information indicative of the first webpage, to determine different objects within the first webpage, said analyzing determining, within said first information, at least a drawing part, and also a text part and also a variable part in said first webpage, said variable having a variable value, where said drawing part, said text part and said variable part are all from a single page of said first webpage, and all from a single analysis;

selecting said drawing part, said text part and said variable part separately and moving each of said drawing part, said text part and said variable part separately, such that said drawing part, said text part and said variable part once moved are each displayed in different locations on a display relative to where said drawing part, said text part and said variable part were displayed in said first webpage;

producing an output indicative of a new display layout, with said drawing part, said text part and said variable part at said different locations; and

second receiving information indicative of a second webpage over the information receiving channel, said second information indicative of a different webpage at a different webpage address than the first information received in said first receiving, and from a different website address than the webpage received in said first receiving, wherein new display position location information includes information for at least one object from said first webpage, and at least one object from said second webpage both on a same screen, and said producing an output signal comprises displaying a composite web page formed from said objects from said first and second webpages, at said locations, said second receiving comprising using the computer to open said first webpage in the background and obtain said first information therefrom, and to open said second webpage in the background and obtain said second information therefrom, and to take parts but not all of said first and second information to display a composite webpage, wherein said first webpage and said second webpage are both automatically closed after obtaining said information therefrom.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein said first information is HTML information, and said analyzing parses the HTML to find said drawing part, said text part and said variable part.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein said selecting uses a graphical interface that allows selecting at least one of the drawing part, said text part and said variable part within the webpage, and relocating said at least one of said drawing part, said text part and said variable part to a different location than an original location as a new display position, and storing information indicative of said different location as at least part of said new display position information.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein said analyzing comprises analyzing HTML code indicative of the webpage to determine if the HTML code represents a static object with a static value or a variable part with a variable value.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein said information indicative of the webpage is in HTML format and said information receiving channel is an Internet connection.

6. A web page reading device comprising:

a information receiving part receiving first information indicative of a first webpage over an information receiving channel;

a web page processing part, automatically analyzing said first information indicative of the first webpage to determine different objects within the first webpage, said analyzing determining, within said first information, at least a drawing part, and also a text part and also at least a variable part in said webpage, said variable part having a variable value, where said drawing part, said text part and said variable part are all from a single page of said first webpage, and all from a single analysis by said web page processing part;

and said web page processing part including a user interface which is actuated to select said drawing part, said text part and said variable part separately selected and to move each of said drawing part, said text part and said variable part separately, such that said drawing part, said text part and said variable part once moved are each displayed in different locations on a display relative to where said drawing part said text part and said variable part were displayed in said first webpage, wherein said information receiving part further receives second information indicative of a second webpage over the information receiving channel, said second information indicative of a different webpage at a different webpage address than the first information;

wherein said web page processing part includes information for at least one part from said first webpage, and at least one part from said second webpage both to be located on a same display screen, and produces a composite web page formed from said parts from said first and second webpages, at said locations;

wherein said web page processing part further comprises a computer to open said first webpage in the background, and obtain said first information therefrom, and to open said second webpage in the background and obtain said second information therefrom, and to take parts but not all of said first and second information to display said composite web page, wherein said first webpage and said second webpage are both automatically closed after obtaining said information therefrom; and

a display part, using said drawing part, said text part and said variable part and new display position information to form a new display layout, and to produce an output that displays the new display layout, with said drawing part, said text part and said variable part at said different locations indicated by said user interface.

7. The device as in claim 6, wherein said first information is HTML information, and said web page processing part parses the HTML to find said drawing part, said text part and said variable part.

8. The device as in claim 6, wherein said web page processing part produces a graphical interface, allowing selecting at least one of the drawing part, said text part and said variable part within the webpage, and relocating said drawing part, said text part and said variable part to a different location on the webpage than an original location, and storing information indicative of said different location as said new display position information.

9. The device as in claim 6, wherein said web page processing part allows displaying said first information, and also displaying a toolbar that allows changing said positions.

10. The device as in claim 6, wherein said web page is in HTML code, and wherein said web page processing part analyzes said first information by analyzing HTML code to determine if the HTML code represents a static part with a static value or a variable part with a variable value.

11. The device as in claim in claim 6 wherein said first and second information are in HTML format, and said information receiving channel is an internet connection.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving first information indicative of a first webpage over an information receiving channel;

receiving second information indicative of a second webpage over the information receiving channel, said second information indicative of a different webpage from a different webpage address than the first information, and from a different website address than the first webpage;

analyzing said first information indicative of the first webpage to determine at least a first fixed part within the first webpage at a first location of a first location on a display where said at least said first fixed part is displayed, said analyzing also determining a variable part within the first webpage, at a second location where the variable part is displayed;

analyzing said second information indicative of the second webpage to determine at least a third part within the second webpage, and third location information indicative of a location on the display where said third part is displayed;

providing a control which allows any of said parts to be separately selected and moved to be displayed in different display positions on a same display page;

using all of

     1) said at least first and second parts from said first information, and

     2) at least one said part from said second information and

     3) new location information from said control to form a new display layout;

producing a composite website output that is indicative of the new display layout, with said parts at locations indicated by said new location information; and

using a computer to open said first webpage in the background, and obtain said first information therefrom, and to open said second webpage in the background and obtain said second information therefrom, and to take parts, but not all of, said first and second information to display a composite webpage formed from objects from said first and second webpages, at said locations, said computer used to open said first webpage in the background and obtain said first information therefrom, and to open said second webpage in the background and obtain said second information therefrom, and to take parts but not all of said first and second information to display a composite webpage, wherein said first webpage and said second webpage are both automatically closed after obtaining said information therefrom.