Facilitating navigation of a webpage on computer device

• US 9,146,675 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Li-Ju, Pan, Bor-Ping, Wu, Rick M. F., Hsu, John J. Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): BAYARD, DJENANE M
• Application Number:
  US13/283,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110125A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,432 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Webpage navigation can include a computer device loading a Webpage having at least a first portion and a second portion, arranging the Webpage in order to present the first portion in the display area of the computer device and to place the second portion out of the display area, and presenting a navigation map corresponding to the Webpage in the display area. In response to a control command input with respect to the navigation map, the Webpage can be arranged in order to present the second portion in the display area.

Claims

1. A computer program product for navigation of a Webpage, the computer program product comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code causes a computer hardware system to perform portion and a second portion into a computer device;

to present said first portion in said display area of said computer device and to place said second portion out of said display area;

corresponding to said Webpage in said display area; and

response to a control command input with respect to said navigation map in order to present said second portion in said display area, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is not a transitory, propagating signal per se, the presenting includes presenting a pointer corresponding to the second portion in the navigation map, the control command is inputted with respect to the pointer, and the pointer aims at a Webpage object in the second portion and wherein meta data of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage, a comparison is made between the meta data and a user preference data, and the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein

the arranging said Webpage in response to said control command to presenting said Webpage object at a predetermined position of said display area.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein

meta data of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage,

a comparison is made between the meta data and a user preference data, and

the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.

3. A computer device configured for navigation of a Webpage, said computer device comprising:

a display having a display area; and

a processor for configured to initiate executable operations comprising;

loading a Webpage having at least a first portion and a second portion in said computer device;

arranging said Webpage in order to present said first portion in a display area of said computer device and to place said second portion out of said display area;

presenting a navigation map corresponding to said Webpage in said display area; and

arranging said Webpage in response to a control command input with respect to a navigation map in order to present said second portion in said display area, wherein the executable operation of presenting said navigation map further comprises;

presenting a pointer corresponding to said second portion in said navigation map, wherein, in the step of arranging said Webpage in response to said control command, said control command is inputted with respect to said pointer, and wherein said pointer aims at a Webpage object in said second portion wherein meta data of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage, a comparison is made between the meta data and a user preference data, and the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.

4. The computer device of claim 3, wherein

the executable operation of arranging said Webpage in response to said control command further comprises:

arranging said Webpage to present said Webpage object at a predetermined position of said display area.

5. The computer device of claim 3, wherein

said display has a resolution of X*Y pixels, wherein both X and Y are less than 1024 or less than 800.

7. The computer device of claim 3, wherein

meta data of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage,

a comparison is made between the meta data and a user preference data, and

the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.