Informed partitioning of data in a markup-based document

• US 9,015,576 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2011
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Dougherty, Michael, Bertolami, Joe, Smith, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): DYER, ANDREW R
• Application Number:
  US13/108,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/238
• US Class Current: 715/238
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/149 Adaptation of the text data for streaming purposes, e.g. Efficient XML Interchange [EXI] format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying a first portion of a markup language document on a first device and displaying a second portion of the markup language document on a second device for interaction with the first portion (e.g., allowing a smart phone to control a video playing on a separate monitor). A markup language document can be created by a developer, where first and second portions of the document are delineated by a remote device tag. The remote device tag can be used to instruct a first device parsing the document to send the second portion to a second (e.g., remote) device. The first portion of the document can be rendered by the first device, and displayed on a display coupled with the first device; and a rendered version of the second portion can be displayed by a display coupled with second device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a markup language document that comprises a first portion associated with a first device, a second portion associated with a second device, and a remote device tag, the markup language document comprising a hypertext markup language (HTML) document;

identifying the first portion, the first portion not comprising all of the markup language document;

identifying the second portion based upon the remote device tag, the remote device tag comprising instructions for displaying content corresponding to the second portion on the second device but not comprising instructions for displaying any of the content corresponding to the second portion on the first device and not comprising instructions for displaying second content corresponding to the first portion on the second device, the remote device tag identifying the second device as an intended second device, the second portion not comprising all of the markup language document and different than the first portion, the first portion not comprising the second portion, the second portion not comprising the first portion;

rendering, for display by the first device, the first portion but not the second portion and not one or more other portions of the markup language document not comprising the first portion; and

sending, to the second device for display by the second device, the second portion but not the first portion and not one or more other portions of the markup language document not comprising the second portion.

2. The method of claim 1, the sending the second portion comprising sending a rendered view of the second portion of the markup language document.

3. The method of claim 1, the sending the second portion comprising sending markup language code comprising the second portion for rendering by the second device.

4. The method of claim 1, the second device comprising a handheld device.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving an indication of an input interaction with the second portion of the markup language document from the second device.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising updating a rendering of one or more portions of the markup language document based on the indication.

7. The method of claim 5, comprising one or more of:

updating the rendering of the first portion, based on the input interaction with the second portion;

or

sending an updated second portion to the second device, based on the input interaction with the second portion.

8. The method of claim 5, the receiving an indication of an input interaction with the second portion of the markup language document from the second device comprising receiving one or more coordinates corresponding to interaction with a first image displayed by the second device.

9. The method of claim 1, the remote device tag comprising an HTML tag.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying the second device such that at least some of a display of the first device and at least some of a display of the second device are concurrently viewable to a user of the second device.

11. The method of claim 1, the sending the second portion comprising sending the second portion to the second device using one or more of:

a wireless connection between the first device and the second device;

a local network connection between the first device and the second device;

a remote network connection between the first device and the second device;

or

a wired connection between the first device and the second device.

12. The method of claim 1, the receiving comprising receiving the markup language document from a remote server.

13. A system, comprising:

one or more processing units; and

memory comprising instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units perform a method comprising;

receiving a markup language document that comprises a first portion associated with a first device, a second portion associated with a second device, and a remote device tag, the markup language document comprising a hypertext markup language (HTML) document;

identifying the first portion;

identifying the second portion based upon the remote device tag, the remote device tag comprising instructions for displaying content corresponding to the second portion on the second device but not comprising instructions for displaying any of the content corresponding to the second portion on the first device and not comprising instructions for displaying second content corresponding to the first portion on the second device, the second portion not comprising all of the markup language document and different than the first portion;

rendering the first portion for display by the first device; and

sending, to the second device for display by the second device, the second portion but not the first portion and not one or more other portions of the markup language document not comprising the second portion.

14. The system of claim 13, the sending the second portion comprising sending the second portion from the first device to the second device.

15. The system of claim 13, the method comprising rendering the second portion of the markup language document for the second device.

16. The system of claim 13, the first device comprising a console-based computer.

17. The system of claim 13, the second device comprising a handheld device.

18. The system of claim 13, the method comprising providing for a connection between the first device and the second device, the connection comprising one or more of:

a local wireless connection;

a local network connection;

a remote cloud-based connection;

or

a remote network connection.

19. The system of claim 13, the method comprising:

receiving an indication of an input interaction with the second portion from the second device; and

updating at least a portion of the markup language document in response to the indication, the updating comprising one or more of;

updating at least a portion of the first portion of the markup language document;

or

updating at least a portion of the second portion of the markup language document.

20. A computer readable memory comprising instructions that when executed perform a method, comprising:

receiving a markup language document that comprises a first portion associated with a first device, a second portion associated with a second device, and a remote device tag, the markup language document comprising a hypertext markup language (HTML) document;

identifying the first portion, the first portion not comprising all of the markup language document;

identifying the second portion based upon the remote device tag, the remote device tag indicative of the association of the second portion with the second device but not comprising instructions for displaying content corresponding to the second portion on the first device and not comprising instructions for displaying second content corresponding to the first portion on the second device, the remote device tag identifying the second device as an intended second device, the second portion not comprising all of the markup language document and different than the first portion, the first portion not comprising the second portion, the second portion not comprising the first portion;

rendering, for display by the first device, the first portion but not the second portion and not one or more other portions of the markup language document not comprising the first portion; and

sending the second portion to the second device for display by the second device.