Multipage navigation on a small screen device

• US 8,819,598 B1
• Filed: 01/26/2012
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Lee, Woo Jae, Roka, Pujan, Sharma, Sanjay
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, TING ZHOU
• Application Number:
  US13/358,661
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• Field of Search: 715/864, 715/784, 715/866, 715/238, 715/273, 715/243, 711/118, 711/135
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for improving user navigation of a multi-page article on a small screen user device. In embodiments, as a user progresses through the multi-page article, pages and/or lines of text of the multi-page article are cached. In response to a user request to view the multi-page article in a full-page format, the cached content is compared against text of the full-page document and used to determine a presentation of the text that displays nonduplicative content to the user.

Claims

1. A method for improving user navigation of a multi-page article on a small screen user device, the method comprising:

forwarding a first request for an article from the small screen user device to a content provider;

sending the article to the small screen user device;

caching one of pages or text lines as the respective pages or text lines are viewed at the small screen user device;

receiving a second request for a full-page format of the article from the small screen user device, wherein the second request comprises the cached pages or text lines;

comparing the cached pages or text lines with the full-page format of the article to determine a first instance of non-duplicative text, wherein the first instance of the non-duplicative text is a location in the full-page format of the article subsequent to the matching pages or text lines; and

forwarding all pages of the full-page format of the article to the small screen user device, wherein the small screen user device displays a page starting at the location of the first instance of the non-duplicative text.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the cached pages or text lines are stored on a server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cached pages or text lines are stored on the small screen user device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a screen displays a portion of the full-page format of the article at the location of the first instance of the non-duplicative text.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deleting the cached pages or text lines associated with one or more recently viewed pages or text lines when a user goes back to an earlier page of the full-page format of the article.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the caching comprises:

subsequently caching a most recently viewed page or text line.

7. A method for improving user navigation of a multi-page document on a small screen user device, the method comprising:

receiving a document from a content provider in response to a first request from the small screen user device;

caching one of pages or text lines as the respective pages or text lines are viewed on the small screen device;

sending a second request for a full-page format of the document, wherein the second request comprises the cached pages or text lines;

comparing the cached pages or text lines with the full-page format of the document to determine a first appearance of non-duplicative text, wherein the first appearance of the non-duplicative text is a location in the full-page format of the document subsequent to the matching pages or text lines; and

displaying a page starting at the first appearance of non-duplicative text of the full-page format of the document on the small screen user device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the displaying comprises a page-by-page presentation when pages are cached.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the displaying comprises a line-by-line presentation when one or more lines are cached.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein previously viewed cached pages or text lines are eliminated as more recent pages or text lines are cached.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

generating a tag to identify the first appearance of non-duplicative text.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the comparing the cached pages or text lines with the full-page format of the document occurs at the small screen user device.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the comparing the cached pages or text lines with the full-page format of the document occurs at a server.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein a presentation of the full-format of the document on a screen of the small screen user device includes at least one line of leading text before displaying the first appearance of non-duplicative text.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein a number of lines comprising the leading text may be input by a user as a user preference.

16. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed by a computing device, perform a method for improving user navigation of a multi-page article on a small screen user device, the method providing:

receiving a requested multi-page article;

caching one of pages or text lines of the multi-page article as they are viewed on a small screen user device;

requesting a full-page format of the multi-page article, wherein the requesting comprises the cached pages or text lines;

comparing the cached pages or text lines with the full-page format of the article to determine a first instance of non-duplicative text, wherein the first instance of non-duplicative text is a location in the full-page format of the article subsequent to the matching pages or text lines;

receiving the full-page format of the multi-page article; and

displaying on the small screen user device, a page of the full-page format of the multi-page article starting at the location of the first instance of non-duplicative text.

17. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 16, wherein all pages of the full-page format of the multi-page article are delivered together.

18. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 16, further comprising:

providing a first link from a multi-page view to a full-page view, and providing a second link from the full-page view to the multi-page view of the multi-page article.

19. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 16, wherein the caching occurs at a second device communicatively coupled to the user device.

20. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 19, wherein the cached pages or text lines are stored at a data store communicatively coupled to the user device or to the second device.