Facilitating navigation of a webpage on computer device

• US 9,152,322 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2012
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Li-Ju, Hsu, John J. Y., Pan, Bor-Ping, Wu, Rick M. F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Parry, Chris
• Assistant Examiner(s): STILTNER, WEIWEI YE
• Application Number:
  US13/430,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20120240031A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,289 Days
• Field of Search: 709/218
• 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

A method of 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 method for facilitating navigation of a Webpage on a computer device, said computer device comprising a display, said display having a display area, said method comprising:

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

arranging said Webpage in order to present said first portion in said 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 said navigation map in order to present said second portion in said display area, wherein the step 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;

wherein a meta data of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage, a comparison is made between the meta data and a user preference data, wherein, in response to confirmed similarity between the meta data and the user preference data, the step of presenting said navigation map further comprises presenting the pointer corresponding to the Webpage object in said navigation map.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step 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.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of arranging said Webpage in response to said control command input with respect to said navigation map, said control command corresponds to said pointer.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising

inputting said user preference data by the user manually before the step of comparing said meta data with said user preference data.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein

said computer device comprises a device database for storing said user preference data, and said method further comprising accessing said device database to obtain said user preference data before the step of comparing said meta data with said user preference data.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising

connecting said computer device to another computer device and updating said user preference data with data of said another computer device before the step of accessing said device database.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising

updating said user preference data according to a record of the user'"'"'s Webpage navigation before the step of accessing said device database.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein

said Webpage further comprises another Webpage object, and a meta data of said another Webpage object is further embedded in said Webpage, such that said user preference data is created according to a meta data of said another Webpage object.

9. The method of claim 3, further comprising

updating said user preference data with another portion of said meta data, if a portion of said meta data matches said user preference data.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein

said first portion further comprises a first Webpage object, and a meta data of said first Webpage object is further embedded in said Webpage, wherein, after the step of loading said Webpage by said computer device and before the step of comparing said user preference data with said meta data of said Webpage object by said computer device, said method further comprises:

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

retrieving a meta data of said first Webpage object in response to presenting said first Webpage object at said predetermined position; and

treating a meta data of said first Webpage object as said user preference data.